Welcome to the official website of author, philanthropist, scholar, and activist DUCHESS HARRIS.
Duchess Harris graduated from the William Mitchell College of Law with her Juris Doctorate on January 15th, 2011. They asked her to join the adjunct faculty six weeks later. She now teaches "Race and the Law" for their summer session.
PAPERBACK - ORDER NOW - Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed.
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A Response to Black Women and Fat
In a May 6, 2012 New York Times op–ed Alice Randall argues that, “…we need… a body-culture revolution in black America. Why? Because too many experts who are involved in the discussion of obesity don’t understand something crucial about black women and fat: many black women are fat because we want to be.” I disagree. [...]