Joy Reid

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Joy Reid

Reid did not graduate with a concentration in Film Studies (theoretical film,) She was in the Visual and Environmental Studies concentration (VES.) Harvard had no Film Studies concentration at the time of her graduation.

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==Early life==
==Early life==
Reid was born Joy-Ann Lomena in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]].{{cite news|last1=Grove|first1=Lloyd|title=Joy Reid, MSNBC Anchor, on the Racism of the Tea Party, Family Dramas, and Why She Loves Boxing|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/27/joy-reid-msnbc-anchor-on-the-racism-of-the-tea-party-family-dramas-and-why-she-loves-boxing.html|website=The Daily Beast|date=March 27, 2014|access-date=September 9, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924235259/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/27/joy-reid-msnbc-anchor-on-the-racism-of-the-tea-party-family-dramas-and-why-she-loves-boxing.html|url-status=live}} Her father was from the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], and her mother a college professor and nutritionist from [[Guyana]]. Her parents met in graduate school at the [[University of Iowa]] in [[Iowa City, Iowa|Iowa City]]. Reid was raised [[Methodism|Methodist]] and has one sister and one brother. Her father was an engineer who was mostly absent from the family; her parents eventually divorced and her father returned to the Congo. She was raised mostly in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], until the age of 17, when her mother died of [[breast cancer]] and she moved to [[Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush,]] in Brooklyn, to live with an aunt. Reid graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1991 with a concentration in [[film studies]].{{cite web|url=https://dacaseminar.fas.harvard.edu/people/joy-reid|title=DACA Seminar|website=harvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=April 26, 2018|archive-date=May 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504150404/https://dacaseminar.fas.harvard.edu/people/joy-reid|url-status=live}}Dept. of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, [[Harvard University|Harvard]]. [https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/about]
Reid was born Joy-Ann Lomena in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]].{{cite news|last1=Grove|first1=Lloyd|title=Joy Reid, MSNBC Anchor, on the Racism of the Tea Party, Family Dramas, and Why She Loves Boxing|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/27/joy-reid-msnbc-anchor-on-the-racism-of-the-tea-party-family-dramas-and-why-she-loves-boxing.html|website=The Daily Beast|date=March 27, 2014|access-date=September 9, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924235259/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/27/joy-reid-msnbc-anchor-on-the-racism-of-the-tea-party-family-dramas-and-why-she-loves-boxing.html|url-status=live}} Her father was from the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], and her mother a college professor and nutritionist from [[Guyana]]. Her parents met in graduate school at the [[University of Iowa]] in [[Iowa City, Iowa|Iowa City]]. Reid was raised [[Methodism|Methodist]] and has one sister and one brother. Her father was an engineer who was mostly absent from the family; her parents eventually divorced and her father returned to the Congo. She was raised mostly in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], until the age of 17, when her mother died of [[breast cancer]] and she moved to [[Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush,]] in Brooklyn, to live with an aunt. Reid graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1991 with a concentration in Visual and Environmental Studies.{{cite web|url=https://dacaseminar.fas.harvard.edu/people/joy-reid|title=DACA Seminar|website=harvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=April 26, 2018|archive-date=May 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504150404/https://dacaseminar.fas.harvard.edu/people/joy-reid|url-status=live}}Dept. of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, [[Harvard University|Harvard]]. [https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/about]


In a 2013 interview, Reid recalled that her college experience was a quick immersion into a demographically opposite place from where she lived, from a community that was 80 percent African American to a community that was 6 percent African American. She had to learn to live with roommates and people who were not her family. She paid her own bills and tuition while at Harvard and said it was a good learning and growing experience overall.{{cite news |last=Witt |first=Alex |url=https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-alex-witt/watch/joy-ann-reid-reflects-on-college-years-at-harvard-31366211733 |title=Joy-Ann Reid Reflects on College Years at Harvard |work=[[MSNBC]] |date=May 25, 2013 |access-date=May 31, 2018 |archive-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707143759/https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-alex-witt/watch/joy-ann-reid-reflects-on-college-years-at-harvard-31366211733 |url-status=live }}
In a 2013 interview, Reid recalled that her college experience was a quick immersion into a demographically opposite place from where she lived, from a community that was 80 percent African American to a community that was 6 percent African American. She had to learn to live with roommates and people who were not her family. She paid her own bills and tuition while at Harvard and said it was a good learning and growing experience overall.{{cite news |last=Witt |first=Alex |url=https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-alex-witt/watch/joy-ann-reid-reflects-on-college-years-at-harvard-31366211733 |title=Joy-Ann Reid Reflects on College Years at Harvard |work=[[MSNBC]] |date=May 25, 2013 |access-date=May 31, 2018 |archive-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707143759/https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-alex-witt/watch/joy-ann-reid-reflects-on-college-years-at-harvard-31366211733 |url-status=live }}
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