“My mother had a very conscious attitude about racism and discrimination,” Reid says, “and a very assertive attitude about combating it and about asserting the rights of what we would now call Black Lives Matter.”
She taught them to seek a life of adventure. Harvard? Stanford? Yale? These schools were all within reach.
She wanted her children to know that they should never be denied anything based on their race. When her father left Reid and her two siblings early into her childhood, her mother raised the family alone in Denver. Her mother, a nutritionist (and later a professor at Northern Colorado), Guyana. Her father, a geologist, came from the Congo. She is both Black and part of that group of first-generation Americans whose parents came to the United States after the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act cleared the way for people of color from across the world. I feel a burden-I feel the burden to do it right.”īut Reid-born Joy-Ann Lomena-has either the advantage or the extra pressure of claiming membership in two different, sometimes socially separate, communities. Reid added: “It’s me owing it back to not just my network but to my community to do well. (The last Black woman to host a prime-time network news show was Gwen Ifill, who, along with Judy Woodruff, was a coanchor on PBS NewsHour until her death at age 61 in 2016.) In so doing, she will not only become the lone Black woman to currently hold such a spot in network news but also will take on the challenge of reshaping the time slot that Hardball defined for a generation. Following the abrupt departure of her friend Chris Matthews from his perch on March 2, the 51-year-old Reid, who’s appeared on MSNBC since 2011, will officially take over the hour with her own show, The ReidOut. today, Reid’s ability to forecast the outcomes of otherwise unknowable, unthinkable times will be tested each night on one of cable networks’ most-watched forums. You just seemed to know better than the rest of us just how bad his presidency would be.”īeginning at 7 p.m. “I am always haunted by those conversations on election night. “Jesus, how did you know?” Wallace says she has often texted.
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Since the night of the 2016 election, Wallace had sent Reid a series of similar notes, varying in their wording but all conveying the same astonishment after Reid had predicted-quite accurately-the terrible tumult the next four years would bring. Recently Nicolle Wallace, the former Republican operative and host of Deadline: White House on MSNBC, texted her friend and colleague Joy-Ann Reid, then the anchor of the weekend show AM Joy.