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Medgar & Myrlie makes the New York Times February books preview!

Medgar and Myrlie makes the New York Times February book preview list!

New novels from Tommy Orange and Kristin Hannah; memoirs from Kara Swisher and Leslie Jamison; a biography of Medgar and Myrlie Evers — and more. Read the post here.

11/25/23 11/25/23

Adweek.com: NBC, MSNBC, CNN and ABC Have Been Nominated for 2019 NAACP Image Awards

The Emmy nominations are in!

The nominees for the 50th NAACP Image Awards were announced this morning at TCA, and nominees include a number of TV newsers.

ABC’s The View is up for Outstanding Talk Series; Joy Reid (AM Joy – MSNBC) and Lester Holt (NBC Nightly News) are nominated in the Outstanding Host in a Talk or News/Information (Series or Special)–Individual or Ensemble category.

11/24/23 11/24/23

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

Medgar and Myrlie Evers was the love story that awakened America to the civil rights struggle in Mississippi…

So excited to announce my new book project: Medgar and Myrlie, a civil rights love story and biography of Medgar Evers, who James Baldwin called one of the triumvirate of great American civil rights leaders alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and Myrlie Evers Williams, America's first national civil rights widow. The book officially drops on February 6, 2024 but is available for pre-order now! For more info and to keep track of book tour dates, visit: https://www.msnbc.com/medgar-and-myrlie

12/18/19 12/18/19

ELLE.com: 20 Women Of Color In Politics To Watch In 2020

Joy Reid photographed for Elle…

She the People’s 20 for 2020 list highlights women of color organizers, elected leaders, and strategists across the country who will play a crucial role leading up to the 2020 election. Many of these women hail from battleground states—Texas, Florida, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin, among others—where their work will undoubtedly play a key role in shaping the results of the election and the future of our democracy. All have bold, audacious plans for 2020, including registering hundreds of thousands of new voters, knocking on millions of doors, protecting every vote, flipping state legislatures, and electing more women to public office.

Here, we recognize the very women whose contributions have been historically overlooked. Women of color have long been a driving force for social change. It’s time that we give credit where it is due. Come 2020, this will be the key to creating a world we imagine. When we lift each other up, we can bring light and joy into the necessary work ahead for all of us.

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2018 Women In The World Los Angeles Salon - Arrivals

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Joy is unapologetic about using her platform as an author, political analyst, and TV host to represent women of color. She knows the media can do a better job in telling a more inclusive story about this country, one in which all people are represented and seen, and she works to elevate the voices of women of color, immigrants, and other diverse perspectives on her weekly show AM Joy.

Joy says that what matters most in 2020 is dramatically increasing the number of people who are registered to vote and getting them to the polls in record numbers, especially people of color and poor people. She is hopeful that if we all do our part and vote, we can restore our democracy and end this dangerous period in American history.

10/10/19 10/10/19

DISSENT: The Obamanauts

Former Obama campaign staffers like Joy Reid making waves in media…

Obama: An Oral History 2009–2017
by Brian Abrams
Little A, 2018, 526 pp.

West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir
by Pat Cunnane
Gallery Books, 2018, 320 pp.

Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
by Valerie Jarrett
Viking, 2019, 320 pp.

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
by Alyssa Mastromonaco with Lauren Oyler
Twelve, 2017, 256 pp.

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
by Dan Pfeiffer
Twelve, 2018, 304 pp.

The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes
Random House, 2018, 480 pp.

We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
ed. by E.J. Dionne Jr. and Joy-Ann Reid
Bloomsbury, 2017, 384 pp.

West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House
ed. by Gautam Raghavan
Penguin, 2018, 336 pp.

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama? For a time, it seemed it would be his foreign policy: the Paris Agreement, diplomatic relations with Cuba, and getting Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program. When Trump got elected and those deals got undone, it seemed it would be the Affordable Care Act. But after plummeting for several years, the uninsured rate among adults has begun to creep back up. Obama did avert a second Great Depression, but history is not kind to averters: with time, what didn’t happen tends to get eclipsed by what did. And what did happen under Obama is a recovery that was slow and weak. Black homeownership rates, which took a major hit during the financial crisis, are the lowest they’ve ever been.

Maybe, then, Obama will be remembered for the fact of his election (though he and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett claim that getting a black man elected was nothing compared to getting the healthcare bill passed) and creating a brand of neoliberal multiculturalism for party elites to use and enjoy in years to come. Yet the defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016 and the failure of Kamala Harris to dominate the 2020 campaign threaten that inheritance. So perhaps Obama’s most important legacy will be one of productive disappointment: energizing a multiracial coalition of young voters whose subsequent disaffections with Obamaism and inclinations toward socialism are today remaking the left.

Since the 2016 election, many members of the Obama administration have written their memoirs in the hope of defining that legacy. In addition, more than a hundred men and women who worked in and around the White House have given their reminiscences to Brian Abrams, who has composed a remarkably fluid oral history of the Obama years. We’ve not yet heard from the man himself. While it’s not unprecedented for the president’s men and women to get the first word, the effect of his silence and their volubility is to decenter a presidency that, more than most, was centered on one man and his words. Obama had an uncanny ability to make sense of his place in history, to narrate what it was that he was doing. His politics had its limits, but they were often, and often knowingly, self-imposed. No matter how circumscribed the view, Obama managed to conjure a sense of what lay beyond it. With one exception, none of his people has that sense of time or place. They’re bound by a perimeter that is not of their making and that lies beyond their ken.

10/10/19 10/10/19

Brookings: In the shadow of impeachment hearings, dueling visions for the nation

A year away from the 2020 election and in the shadow of impeachment hearings, a wide-ranging new survey from PRRI explores the profound cultural fissures in the country. With Americans deeply divided along political, racial, and religious lines, the survey shows how these factions are prioritizing different issues—from terrorism and immigration to health care and climate change. The survey measures Democratic presidential nominee preferences and the stability of President Trump’s base, including analysis of support for impeachment. This year’s survey, the 10th in the annual American Values Survey series, also highlights long-term trends in partisan and religious affiliation, and how these changes have produced two starkly contrasting visions for the nation.

On October 21, Governance Studies at Brookings and PRRI will host an event to release this year’s American Values Survey. A panel of experts will discuss the survey results and Americans’ views on a variety of political issues.

9/29/19 9/29/19

MSNBC Host and Author Joy-Ann Reid Responds to Trump’s Tweet About Her, Talks Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal and Book Signing Event

MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid reacts to President Donald Trump's tweet attacking her (but spelling her name right) as she prepares for a book signing in Los Angeles... Watch here: https://ktla.com/2019/09/24/msnbc-host-and-author-joy-ann-reid-responds-to-trumps-tweet-about-her-talks-trump-ukraine-whistleblower-scandal-and-book-signing-event/

VIDEO: Joy-Ann Reid Breaks Downs How Donald Trump Became 'The Man Who Sold America'

"Everything about him was a con, and we're still being conned."

In her new book, Joy-Ann Reid explains how Trump scammed his way into the White House and why the U.S. might be paying for that decision for years to come. (Interview with Terrell J. Starr of The Root)

Watch here.

7/16/19 7/16/19

Black Enterprise.com: [WATCH] AS TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON RACIST RHETORIC, JOY REID BREAKS DOWN TOXIC POLITICS

On her weekend MSNBC show, AM Joy, Joy Reid delivers political insight with surgical precision. She speaks quickly—it seems at times her words are syncing with the rapid-fire pistons of her thought process. Reid has a new book out, The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story and its release is timely.

President Trump recently fired off a series of tweets presumably targeting newly-elected, non-white members of Congress: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan.), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), and Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts.). In a tweetstorm, Trump advised the four, known in the media as “The Squad,” to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” He also unleashed a barrage of attacks, accusing the representatives of engaging in “disgusting language,” and called them “anti-Semitic” and “anti-American.”

American politics have become grotesque. And many wonder if America can ever recover from the toxic climate. Reid addresses that very question and much more about the current state of politics in this exclusive interview with Black Enterprise.

On why so many white people identify with and vote for Trump, Reid says she has researched the reasons. “The reasons that people voted for Trump,'” she says, are because “if they had economic anxiety…they relate that economic anxiety to people of color” and that many feel the economic problems they may be experiencing are “the fault of immigrants.”

7/11/19 7/11/19

Essence: Joy-Ann Reid, Richard Lawson, Yesha Callahan, and Dr. Walter Kimbrough took to the Essence Fest Power Stage to Discuss Ways Black Children Can Get Ahead.

In the United States, predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more in funding than non-white schools, according to an EdBuild report. That financial disparity contributes greatly to the nation’s economic divide, leaving the Black community in search of educational opportunities that will help youth better compete with their White counterparts.

On Friday, actor Richard Lawson, MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid and Dillard University’s Dr. Walter Kimbrough joined ESSENCE News and Politics Director, Yesha Callahan on stage at Essence Festival to discuss the disparities in more detail. Not surprising, HBCUs and community colleges were named as a possible way forward for the Black community.

“The reality is that if you looked at the amount of money that Black people pour into this system we would be the 15th largest country in the world. So that tells us that we have a buying power,” Lawson said of the economic wealth in Black communities. “So hopefully in some way, if there is some kind of think tank, some kind of group of educators and then venture capitalists who can direct the money that we make and power that we have towards Black children, a great difference can be made.”

For many Black students, wealth is a determining factor for attending an institution of higher learning. It’s why Joy-Ann Reid says that college can be “a complicated issue.” Though a four-year institution helps Black graduates get ahead in the workforce, student loans after a 12-year period prove that it can also contribute to our overall wealth. Kimbrough noted that White men pay off 44 percent of their college loan within the first 12 years of graduating. In that time, Black women’s loans have increased by 13 percent.

NBCNews.com: Joy goes one-on-one with director Rob Reiner on Trump, Barr

Joy goes one-on-one with director and activist Rob Reiner on Robert Mueller, Donald Trump, William Barr, and the future of America’s democracy.

3/6/19 3/6/19

MSNBC.com: How history will regard Cohen’s testimony on Trump

Donald Trump was lambasted by the president’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen in congressional testimony this past week, during which Cohen called Trump a racist and conman. Joy Reid is joined by historian Michael Beschloss to discuss. Read more

1/14/19 1/14/19

Contemptor.com: Filling In for Maddow, MSNBC's Joy Reid Leads All Cable in Total Viewership Friday Night

MSNBC was back on top in primetime Friday night, leading cable news in both total viewership and the key 25-54 demographic. With star Rachel Maddow taking the night off, Joy Reid filled in as guest host for The Rachel Maddow Show and turned in the most-watched cable program of the evening.

According to Nielsen, MSNBC averaged 2.553 million total viewers and 415,000 in the demo during the 8 PM to 11 PM primetime hours Friday night. Fox News placed second in both metrics, drawing 2.193 million viewers overall and 364,000 in the demographic. CNN captured a demo audience of 331,000 and 1.266 million total viewers.

BlackEnterprise.com: Joy Reid Is Taking MSNBC's TV Viewership To New Heights.

As a political analyst, author, and host, Joy Reid is known for asking the questions others shy away from and pushing people to tell the truth despite what side of the political spectrum they’re on. The Harvard graduate began her career in radio at Radio One and later transitioned into digital reporting for local and national outlets such as The Grio and the Miami Herald. In short, Reid is a Woman of Power.

And now, thanks to Reid and her team, in 2018, AM Joy scored their third straight year of growth on weekends. And the show became the No. 1 show in African American total viewers across all cable during the time period of Jan. 1 – Dec. 30, 2018.

Elle.com: Joy Reid Is Quietly, Steadily, Stealthily Changing the Game for Women on TV

A weekend-morning MSNBC show, lodged firmly in the posthangover, prebrunch hours, wouldn’t ordinarily be the stuff of trending topics. But the rules have changed since November 8, 2016. Now Reid’s show, AM Joy, regularly pulls in viewers, and 2017 marks the first time in 16 years that MSNBC beat out CNN in the Saturday-morning time slot. Twitter swells with real-time reactions from #Reiders, especially when Reid schools a guest in her trademark patient, no-nonsense fashion. (After Shonda Rhimes retweeted a clip of Reid calmly demolishing a guest who was spouting Clinton Foundation conspiracy theories—appending the comment “Just in case you’re wondering how to dismiss foolishness”—Reid confesses, “I died. Oh, I died!”) Given the cacophony of cable news, where the loudest panelist often wins, Reid’s approach has few antecedents on the right or the left, but perhaps that’s why she has so many newly minted fans: In a sensationalist climate, she refuses to let facts wriggle out of her grasp.Read more here.

11/4/16 11/4/16

Refinery29: What It's Really Like To Cover This Election As A Black Female News Anchor

NOVEMBER 1, 2016, 11:00 AMThe 2016 election has been historic for any number of reasons, not least of which is the emergence of Hillary Clinton as the first woman to gain the nomination of a major American political party. It’s a fact that often gets glossed over in coverage of a race whose narrative has been dominated by a reality star with a vulgar way with women. But in just over one week, the United States could join countries like Germany, Liberia, Great Britain, India, Israel and even Pakistan, in finally electing a female head of state.Read more here.

9/22/16 9/22/16

Joy Reid to receive Women's Media Center Journalism award

The Women's Media Center is proud to announce our host and honorees for the 2016 Women's Media Awards, to be held on September 29, 2016, at Capitale in New York City.The event will be hosted for the first time by Sally Field, the two-time Academy Award-winning and multiple Emmy-winning star of "Hello, My Name is Doris," who will be returning to Broadway in March 2017 starring as Amanda in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie." Gayle King, co-anchor of "CBS This Morning" and three-time Emmy winner, will give the opening remarks at the awards.The honorees will be:Samantha Bee, host of TBS' "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee"; longtime correspondent on "The Daily Show"; co-creator of the upcoming sitcom "The Detour"; and author, who will receive the Women's Media Center History Making Award.Salma Hayek Pinault, Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, and BAFTA nominated actor; Emmy-winning director; award-winning producer; co-founder of CHIME FOR CHANGE; and activist, who will receive the Women's Media Center Sisterhood is Global Award.Joy Reid, political analyst for MSNBC; host of "AM Joy"; and author, who will receive the Women's Media Center Carol Jenkins Visible and Powerful Media Award.Read more here.