Melissa Harris-Perry has been called one of our foremost public intellectuals. Along with being an author, professor, mother, and unabashed feminist, she’s the eponymous host of a successful show on MSNBC where she brings social and political issues to the forefront each week. Though she writes and speaks honestly about being a black woman in America, her opinions aren’t always popular. When Rachel Dolezal’s “transracial” controversy fascinated the internet, she defended the former NAACP chapter president. In this episode of Broadly Meets, Jenna Friedman sits down with the TV pundit to talk about Sex in the City‘s racial stereotypes, thinking in public, and PC culture.