MLK http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/25823/all en MSNBC’s Harris-Perry: Today’s Selma March Is For ‘Reproductive Rights’ http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/msnbcs-harris-perry-todays-selma-march-reproductive-rights <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> At 50th anniversary of civil rights march, host says it has evolved for Planned Parenthood supporters. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/katie-yoder">Katie Yoder</a> </div> </div> </div> <p><iframe src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/133745" width="520" height="293" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p dir="ltr">Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” is now about “reproductive rights” according to MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. Her view directly contradicted Martin Luther King, Jr.’s niece, who has make her pro-life views public.</p><p dir="ltr">While covering the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Ala. live for MSNBC on March 8, Harris-Perry proclaimed that this year’s march stood for issues “on the table right now.” Issues like abortion.</p><div class='signature'><p>— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@k_yoder" target="_blank">Follow Katie Yoder on Twitter.</a></p></div><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/msnbcs-harris-perry-todays-selma-march-reproductive-rights" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Culture Family Life Media Abortion Alveda King bloody sunday Civil Rights Martin Luther King Jr. Melissa Harris-Perry MLK Planned Parenthood Priests for Life reproductive rights Selma Selma50 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:39:19 +0000 julia.seymour 48404 at http://archive2.mrc.org