Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

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Joy-Ann Reid is an African American political analyst, author, and television host. She is a national correspondent for MSNBC and has hosted the political commentary program The ReidOut since 2020. Reid previously hosted the daily news programs The Reid Report (2014-2015) and A.M. Joy (2016-2020). From 2011 to 2014, she was the managing editor of TheGrio, an online platform featuring opinion and daily news pieces that primarily address African American audiences and focus on stories that affect Black people. Reid served as a talk radio producer and host for Radio One and an online news editor for the NBC affiliate WTVJ in Miramar, Florida. She has also worked as a freelance political columnist in the Miami Herald; her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, and New York Magazine. During a hiatus from journalism in 2004, she worked as a press secretary for the national voter registration and mobilization entity America Coming Together. She also served the Florida branch of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.

Reid is the author of three nonfiction books: Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide (2016), the New York Times bestseller The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story (2019), and the biography Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America (2024).