Joy Reid

Joy Reid
Reid in 2018
Born
Joy-Ann M. Lomena

(1968-12-08) December 8, 1968 (age 55)
New York City, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Occupations
  • television host
  • political commentator
  • author
Notable credits
Political partyDemocratic[1]
Spouse
Jason Reid
​
(m. 1997)​
[2]
Children3

Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid (née Lomena; born December 8, 1968) is an American progressive political commentator and television host.[3] She is a national correspondent for MSNBC and is best known for hosting the political commentary program The ReidOut since July 2020. Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020).[4]

The New York Times described Reid as a "heroine" emerging from the political movements and protests against Donald Trump.[5] She has written three books: Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide (2016),[6][7] The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story (2019),[8] and Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America (2024).

  1. ^ Hill, Jarrett (November 4, 2016). "MSNBC's Joy Reid on Election Day Predictions, Donald Trump's Scar on the GOP". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 25, 2018. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Pappu, Sridhar (July 20, 2020). "MSNBC's Joy Reid on Her Groundbreaking Move to Prime Time: 'I Feel the Burden to Do It Right'". Vogue. Archived from the original on January 19, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  3. ^ "Joy Reid on Media, Politics, and 2020". Brown University. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  4. ^ "MSNBC Appoints Joy Reid as Chris Matthews' Replacement". Associated Press. July 9, 2020. Archived from the original on July 9, 2020. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT10Feb2018 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Reid, Joy-Ann Lomena (2015). Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the racial divide (1st ed.). New York, NY: Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0-06-230525-1.
  7. ^ "Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide". Kirkus Reviews. July 15, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  8. ^ Reid, Joy-Ann Lomena (2019). The man who sold America: Trump and the unraveling of the American story (1st ed.). New York, NY: William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-288010-9.