Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get more from Joy-Ann Reid in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app

Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get more from Joy-Ann Reid in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app

Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get more from Joy-Ann Reid in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app

Unknown (American). , 1940s–50s. Gelatin silver print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2015 (2015.330) Source: Vogue. At its best, art is subversive and loud, even when it is silent and mainly visual. Fashion, at its best, is art that’s like that. The M...

A little preview: Mark your calendars! The LIVE convo starts at noon ET… Live link here! Joy's House is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thanks for reading Joy's House! This post is public so feel free to share it...

Get more from Joy-Ann Reid in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, image from NHAAMC website The “Blacksonian” isn’t just a building, or an institution. It’s OURS. And buy “ours,” I mean Black America’s and by virtue of our foundational presence in this nation’s founding and development, ALL Americans’ a...

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate Jalen Hurts. Hurts, the Super Bowl MVP quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles was asked by a reporter last week if he planned to attend the White House celebration with his team. His answer was classic. More classic? What he actually did on the actual day of t...

Donald Trump is bad for business. He’s crushing tourism to the U.S. (flushing billions of dollars in revenue in the process) no matter how hard he denies that it’s a big deal. From the Washington Post in late April: Industry experts say some of the reasons are plain to see: Reports of detentions an...

Happy Cinco De Mayo, fellow American peasants! Today is the day Mexicans celebrate their country’s 1862 victory in the battle of Puebla over the forces of the French emperor, Napoleon III, whom they whooped just as the Haitians had done his uncle Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804. The war, over Mexico pau...

Today I’m announcing a brand new addition to Joy's House —- A premium subscribers-only group chat. Read more

I haven’t been Catholic since I was maybe six years old. My mom, Philomena Carryl Lomena (and yes, I know it’s weird that a woman named Philomena managed to find a husband whose surname was Lomena) was an Anglican when she came to the U.S. And my father, Sebastien Ibeke Lomena, her Congolese boo th...