Joy Reid

Reid was born Joy-Ann Lomena in Brooklyn, New York City. Her father was from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, In a 2013 interview, Reid recalled that her college experience was a quick immersion into a demographically opposite place from where she lived, from a community that was 80 percent African American to a community that was 6 percent African American. She had to learn to live with roommates and people who were not her family. She paid her own bills and tuition while at Harvard and said it was a good learning and growing experience overall. ==Career==

Reid began her journalism career in 1997, leaving New York and her job at a business consulting firm to begin working in South Florida for a WSVN Channel 7 morning show. She left journalism in 2003 to work with the group America Coming Together to oppose the Iraq War and President George W. Bush. She later returned to broadcasting as a talk radio host and worked on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. (2011–2014), as a political columnist for the The Miami Herald (2003–2015), and as editor of The Reid Report political blog (2000–2014). Reid also teaches a Syracuse University class in Manhattan exploring race, gender, and the media. The show was canceled on February 19, 2015, and Reid was shifted to a new role as an MSNBC national correspondent. Beginning in May 2016, Reid hosted '''', a political weekend-morning talk show on MSNBC, and was a frequent substitute for other MSNBC hosts, including Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow. As of 2018, Reid's morning show on Saturdays averaged nearly one million weekly viewers. In 2017, Reid ranked fourth among Twitter's top tweeted news outlets and most tweeted journalist at each outlet. The Daily Dot credited her in August of that year with coining the term KHive for supporters of Kamala Harris. In July 2020, MSNBC announced that Reid would host The ReidOut, a new Washington-based weeknight commentary show in the 7 p.m. Eastern time slot vacated by the March 2020 retirement of Hardball host Chris Matthews, On February 23, 2025, The New York Times reported that MSNBC had canceled The ReidOut, with plans to air its final episode during the week of February 24–28. The final broadcast of The ReidOut would air on February 24, 2025. Post-MSNBC The day prior to the New York Times report of her ouster, Reid launched The Joy Reid Show as a channel on YouTube through Image Lab. == Reception and honors ==

In 2015, Reid gave the inaugural Ida B. Wells lecture at Wake Forest University's Anna Julia Cooper Center. In 2018, The New York Times stated that "Ms. Reid, the daughter of immigrants, has emerged as a 'heroine' of the anti-Trump 'resistance'." In 2018, Reid was nominated for three NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards. One for her segment in which a pastor is pulled to safety at the Charlottesville white nationalist march, one for her reporting on damage caused by the hurricanes on the US Virgin Islands, and one for the segment that won her an award for "Time: The Kalief Browder Story," in which Reid sat down with Kalief's brother Deion Browder and filmmaker Julia Mason. In 2016, Reid received the Women's Media Center's Carol Jenkins Visible and Powerful Media Award. Reid received a 2025 Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award from PEN Oakland. ==Controversies==

Deleted blog controversies In late 2017, and again in April 2018, Twitter user @Jamie_maz Following criticism, Reid apologized, calling the posts "insensitive, tone-deaf and dumb." A second batch of posts gained attention, which described kissing between men as disgusting to straight people, accused gay men of being "attracted to very young, post-pubescent types", and declared opposition to same-sex marriage. In one post, Reid wrote about her views: "Does that make me homophobic? Probably." Reid claimed she did not remember making those posts, and asked lawyers to investigate if her blog or its archives might have been hacked, The second batch of posts prompted LGBT advocacy group PFLAG to rescind its plan to give Reid an award, and The Daily Beast to suspend future columns from her. An analysis published by The Daily Beast thoroughly disputed her claims of being a victim of hacking. Responses to her apology tended to be divided along party lines. In April 2018, further blog posts from 2005 through 2007 were brought to public attention. According to The Washington Post, Reid's controversial remarks included encouraging her readers to watch the "truther" conspiracy-theory film Loose Change and saying of Israel "God is not a real estate broker. He can't just give you land 1,000 years ago that you can come back and claim today." Reid claimed Jewish people spend half a million dollars on their bar and bat mitzvah celebrations. She also described CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who is Jewish and worked as an editor for AIPAC early in his career, as a "former flak for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee " who "doesn't even try to hide his affinity for his Israeli guests, or his partisanship for their cause", and accused him of bias against Arab and Muslim guests on his show. The Zionist Organization of America called for MSNBC to fire Reid for promoting "sinister anti-Semitic canards". Another controversial post, from 2007, contained a photoshopped image of Senator John McCain's face superimposed on the body of Seung-Hui Cho, who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting. In June 2018, Reid formally apologized for her past writings, saying, "I'm a better person today than I was over a decade ago. There are things I deeply regret and am embarrassed by, things I would have said differently, and issues where my position has changed. Today I'm sincerely apologizing again." MSNBC expressed its continued support, saying in a statement that some of the blog posts were "obviously hateful and hurtful," but that they were "not reflective of the colleague and friend we have known at MSNBC for the past seven years" The Southern Poverty Law Center and Muslim Advocates, both civil rights organizations, and representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib criticized Reid's remarks as Islamophobic and called for an apology. Conversely, commentator Jennifer Rubin defended Reid, arguing she had merely highlighted a double standard in the media without endorsing it. == Personal life ==

In 1997, Reid married Jason Reid, who later became a documentary film editor. The couple has three children. == Works ==

• • Reid, Joy-Ann (June 25, 2019). The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story. Mariner Books. . == See also ==