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WATCH: Melissa Harris-Perry Rips MSNBC in New Interview
The former cable star says she believes the network's reasoning in pulling her off TV had racial implications, '100 percent.' 
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The Advocate's news editor Dawn Ennis successfully transitioned from broadcast journalism to online media following another transition that made headlines; in 2013, she became the first trans staffer in any major TV network newsroom. As the first out transgender editor at The Advocate, the native New Yorker continues her 30-year media career, in which she has earned more than a dozen awards, including two Emmys. With the blessing of her three children, Dawn retains the most important job title she's ever held: Dad.
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Judge Eboni K. Williams put the bigoted father on blast in a clip that's racking up millions of views.

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