EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR

Joy-Ann ("Joy") Reid has worked in television and radio news since 1998, including for NBC News affiliate WTVJ and Fox station WSVN. She has written columns for the Miami Herald, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Salon.com and the South Florida Times. As a radio personality, Ms. Reid has interviewed national media and political figures, including Bill Cosby, O.J. Simpson, Russell Simmons, former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, and then-Senator and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.

During the 2004 presidential election, Reid served as Florida deputy communications director for the Democratic-leaning 527 America Coming Together. In 2008, she served as a press aide to then-Senator Barack Obama's Florida campaign.

Ms. Reid is the managing partner of IMAGELAB, LLC, a video production, graphic design and communications firm. She is producing a television documentary, "The Fight Years," which chronicles the history of boxing in Miami.

Ms. Reid is a 1991 graduate of Harvard University, where she majored in visual arts with a concentration in film, and a 2003 Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellow. She has appeared as a political commentator on radio and television, including Miami PBS affiliate WPBT Channel 2, WTVJ (NBC 6), Britain's Sky News and Miami radio stations Hot 105 and 103.5 The Beat.

She blogs daily at reidreport.com.

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POLITICAL DEBATE

The slavery-abortion analogy

On Tuesday, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee traveled to Texas, where the debate over an extremely restrictive — and more than likely unconstitutional — anti-abortion bill raged on this week. Huckabee came flanked by more than 3,000 anti-abortion protesters, and armed with a by now familiar message: Abortion is like slavery, and anti-abortion activists are the modern-day equivalent of abolitionists.

VOTING RIGHTS ACT

Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling throws fuel on a new fire

Fifty years ago this month, Medgar Evers arrived at his home near Jackson, Miss., in the early morning hours of June 12. The evening before, President John F. Kennedy had delivered his landmark televised address to the nation, calling on Congress to pass legislation ensuring the civil and voting rights of black Americans. It was a tumultuous year — culminating in the seminal march on Washington later that summer and Kennedy’s assassination in November.
MARCO RUBIO

Joy-Ann Reid: Marco Rubio’s Rubik’s Cube on immigration

If Marco Rubio were a toy, he’d be a Rubik’s Cube. The junior senator from Florida has been twisted and turned into such a multitude of combinations and near alignments, it can be as frustrating to get a handle on him as it is to finish the maddening 1980s nerd square.
PRESS & POLITICS

Joy-Ann Reid: Summer of scandal roils D.C.

We have officially entered the “summer of the shark” phase of the Obama administration — where nearly any political event is liable to be swept up in the rip currents of the Beltway media’s favorite theme: scandal.
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS

IRS probe should be wide-ranging

Allow me to agree with Republicans and members of the media who are up in arms over revelations that low level staffers of the Internal Revenue Service took a shortcut in cutting through the flood of applications for 501(c)4 status starting in 2010. The IRS has admitted the staffers inappropriately flagged applicants with “tea party,” “patriots” or “9/12” (presumably, for Glenn Beck’s “9/12 Movement”) in their names for extra scrutiny.
CONSERVATISM

New America held hostage by Old America

There have been so many essays written dissecting the state of conservatism, the notion that it is in decline has become cliché. But decline doesn’t mean disappearance.
CONGRESS

Gun zealots winning in Congress despite national outcry for gun control

With so many failures to its credit, it is no longer sufficient to say Congress is “broken.” It is on the brink of utter uselessness.