How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance<br />Ms. Reid, he said, “gave me my voice when I didn’t have one of my own.”<br />Despite a hectic schedule, Ms. Reid makes time for an extended family.<br />Don’t worry.’” In May 2016, she was named the host of “AM Joy.” The show replaced one hosted by Melissa Harris-Perry, who got into a fight with MSNBC over remarks Ms. Harris-Perry made in an email accusing the cable network of trying to silence her<br />and take editorial control, with suggested “racial implications.”<br />Ms. Reid has hardly neglected the topic of race, but she also focuses on gender and culture.<br />Those are the V. I.P.s in her life.”<br />Ms. Reid got her television break in 2014 when she was hired by MSNBC to create a daily show called “The Reid Report.”<br />It was short-lived, though, canceled the next year because of poor ratings (along with Ronan Farrow’s).<br />“Our prime directive is to constantly remind people<br />that this is not normal and not to allow it to become mundane,” Ms. Reid said in a recent interview at MSNBC’s studios in Midtown Manhattan, referring to the architecture of the Trump presidency.<br />“I should have known then that Trump would win,” Ms. Reid said.<br />In her class for Syracuse, which she teaches in Manhattan, Ms. Reid addresses the precarious<br />definition of what the president calls “fake news,” and why it is a dangerous concept.<br />“I failed a bunch of classes,” Ms. Reid said.
