Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid, known professionally as Joy Reid (born
December 8, 1968), is an American cable television host, MSNBC
national correspondent, and political commentator. In 2016, The
Hollywood Reporter described her as one of the political pundits "who
have been at the forefront of the cable-news conversations this
election season." That same year, she wrote a book on the recent
history of the Democratic Party, called Fracture: Barack Obama, the
Clintons, and the Racial Divide. She hosted the weekly MSNBC morning
show AM Joy, and in 2019 published the book, The Man Who Sold America:
Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story. On July 9, 2020, MSNBC
announced that Reid would host The ReidOut, a new Washington-based
weeknight show in the 7 p.m. Eastern time slot vacated in March by
Hardball host Chris Matthews' retirement.Reid was born Joy-Ann Lomena
in Brooklyn, New York. Her father was from the Democratic Republic of
Congo, and her mother a college professor and nutritionist from
Guyana; the couple met in graduate school at the University of Iowa in
Iowa City. Reid was raised Methodist and has one sister and one
brother. Her father was an engineer who was mostly absent from the
family; her parents eventually divorced and her father returned to the
Congo. She was raised mostly in Denver, Colorado, until the age of 17,
when her mother died of breast cancer and she moved to Flatbush,
Brooklyn, to live with an aunt. Reid graduated from Harvard University
in 1991 with a concentration in the visual art and documentation form,
film.In a 2013 interview on MSNBC, 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 six 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.
December 8, 1968), is an American cable television host, MSNBC
national correspondent, and political commentator. In 2016, The
Hollywood Reporter described her as one of the political pundits "who
have been at the forefront of the cable-news conversations this
election season." That same year, she wrote a book on the recent
history of the Democratic Party, called Fracture: Barack Obama, the
Clintons, and the Racial Divide. She hosted the weekly MSNBC morning
show AM Joy, and in 2019 published the book, The Man Who Sold America:
Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story. On July 9, 2020, MSNBC
announced that Reid would host The ReidOut, a new Washington-based
weeknight show in the 7 p.m. Eastern time slot vacated in March by
Hardball host Chris Matthews' retirement.Reid was born Joy-Ann Lomena
in Brooklyn, New York. Her father was from the Democratic Republic of
Congo, and her mother a college professor and nutritionist from
Guyana; the couple met in graduate school at the University of Iowa in
Iowa City. Reid was raised Methodist and has one sister and one
brother. Her father was an engineer who was mostly absent from the
family; her parents eventually divorced and her father returned to the
Congo. She was raised mostly in Denver, Colorado, until the age of 17,
when her mother died of breast cancer and she moved to Flatbush,
Brooklyn, to live with an aunt. Reid graduated from Harvard University
in 1991 with a concentration in the visual art and documentation form,
film.In a 2013 interview on MSNBC, 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 six 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.
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