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No Hack: Joy Reid Issues Mea Culpa for Unearthed Homophobic Comments
On Saturday morning’s AM Joy, the brilliant host of the MSNBC weekend staple, Joy-Ann Reid, began her segment apologizing for words that may have hurt those in the LGBTQ community, calling the commentary “despicable.” Over the last week, the MSNBC host had come under fire, especially from conservative outlets, after an Intercept article by founder…
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Joy Reid May Be the 1st Celebrity Who Was Actually Hacked, and I Should Probably Be Mad About It
After screenshots of blog posts by Joy Reid surfaced last week, everyone, including me, shot the MSNBC host a healthy dose of side-eye when she explained away homophobic statements from as far back as 2006 by saying that her old blog was hacked. As far as excuses go, “I was hacked” trails only “He’s like…
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Joy Reid and Black Twitter Offer Several Seats to Killer Mike
It is a vicious, slow-spreading bacteria that has infected some of the most well-meaning people of our time. Most often poisoning pulpit dwellers, the malady causes the victim—who usually has insight in one particular area—to believe he is a genius with answers to everything, including economics, history, politics and even behavior. After studying the syndrome…
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‘Trenchant Views’ From Media Women of Color
Report Cites Micro-Aggressions, Low Numbers Public Favors Greater Diversity Among Journalists Short Take “Fifty years after the Kerner Commission criticized the news media for not sufficiently covering race issues, a new special report shows that women of color continue to be underrepresented in U.S. newsrooms and face multiple challenges in achieving equality in hiring and…
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Real Beauty: Is Truth in Advertising Finally Here?
“For my entire life, I’ve been sold the seduction of my inadequacy.” —Lupita Nyong’o Those are the words of a woman many consider one of the most beautiful in the world, who grew up, like many black and brown girls everywhere, not seeing images in the media that reflected herself and validated her beauty. Seth…
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Pastor Mark Burns’ Arms Too Short to Box With Joy: ‘We’re Not Friends’
One good turn deserves another. And since Vice President Mike Pence was recently shamed by a pastor—actually, the man has no shame, so—since Pence was recently called out by a pastor, it’s only right that a pastor get a verbal drubbing of his own—just to show that all God’s children do not have traveling shoes…
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MSNBC Host Joy-Ann ‘Reids’ Guest Over Fake Right-Wing Uranium Story
Joy-Ann Reid is quickly becoming the face of sanity and standards in a news industry fast devolving into chaos as a presidential administration and its minions consistently push fake news and conspiracy theories. On Sunday, President Donald Trump did his favorite thing and tried to deflect from the pending indictments of his cronies by going…
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If You’re Really Into MSNBC and Joy-Ann Reid Right Now You Have Yvette Miley to Thank
Joy-Ann Reid has become a national treasure. As one of few black faces in an anchor chair on MSNBC after the network dealt with the sudden departure of Melissa Harris-Perry in February 2016 and this February’s exit of Tamron Hall, Reid is one of only three African Americans with a regular show on the network.…