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Joy Reid warns Black communities to not be fooled by Trump’s recent pardons

This week, Donald Trump signed 16 pardons, including rapper NBA YoungBoy and reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, and six commutations to reduce the sentences of convicted criminals like Larry Hoover.  While Trump’s decision has sparked outrage and discourse on social media, journalist and political analyst Joy Reid encourages constituents not to be fooled by the president’s recent actions.  “The Trump regime [or] current administration, whatever you want to call them, is trying to reset and reestablish what criminality means,” […]

todayMay 30, 2025 15

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Black trans leaders turn to inspiration and joy amid Trump’s ‘coordinated attacks’ on transgender rights

Trans Day of Visibility is taking on new meaning for Black trans and gender-expansive Americans as they navigate the political resurgence of President Donald Trump, who has made anti-trans and anti-DEI policies major features of his administration’s agenda. Black trans and gender-expansive individuals find themselves at the intersection of communities that are being impacted after a slew of actions taken by the Trump administration, including moving to ban the existence of trans-Americans from sports, government websites, the U.S. military and […]

todayMarch 31, 2025 1

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Trump celebrates MSNBC cancellation of Joy Reid’s ‘The ReidOut’: ‘Obnoxious racist’

President Donald Trump celebrated the recent cancellation of Joy Reid’s MSNBC show “The ReidOut” late Sunday on Truth Social and railed against the liberal cable TV network. “‘Lowlife Chairman of ‘Concast,’ Brian Roberts, the owner of Ratings Challenged NBC and MSDNC, has finally gotten the nerve up to fire one of the least talented people in television,” wrote Trump, using disparaging nicknames to describe both parent company, Comcast, and its network, MSNBC. The president has long considered the news channel […]

todayFebruary 24, 2025

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There is no joy this morning

OPINION: Like many, I hoped to wake up to the news that Kamala Harris had pulled out the improbable. Like many, I, again, woke up disappointed. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. As a professional writer—an opinion writer at that—my job is to provide perspective on things that are happening all around us. In that role, some days are easier than others. And then there […]

todayNovember 7, 2024

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Harris’ DNC nomination is a debt owed to Black women, says MSNBC’s Joy Reid 

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) marks a historic feat for Kamala Harris. On Thursday, she will officially become the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to clinch the presidential nomination from a major political party. It’s a moment that can be seen as Democrats’ long-owed debt to Black women, who, for decades, have been regarded as the political backbone of the racially and ethnically diverse party.  “For me, as a Black woman, I look at it from […]

todayAugust 19, 2024

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Harris is pushing joy. Trump paints a darker picture. Will mismatched moods matter?

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the top of his first speech as her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz turned to Vice President Kamala Harris and declared, “Thank you for bringing back the joy.” The next day, Harris took the theme a step further, branding the Democratic ticket “joyful warriors.” Contrast that with former President Donald Trump, who opened a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida a few days later by saying, “We have a lot of bad things […]

todayAugust 12, 2024