“I come into the world as a black woman, a child of immigrants, as a black parent,” she said. In 2016, she began hosting the two-hour-long weekend show “AM Joy” on Saturday and Sunday mornings. And for making such comments in the past, I’m sorry.”ADADDuring her rise at the network, Reid said Matthews “was something of a mentor to me. In June 2018, MSNBC issued a statement of support for Reid, acknowledging that she had written “obviously hateful and hurtful” words on an old blog she maintained. “They are not reflective of the colleague and friend we have known at MSNBC for the past seven years,” the network said at the time.

Source: Washington Post July 09, 2020 10:02 UTC