Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid, known professionally as Joy Reid, is an American cable television host, MSNBC national correspondent, liberal political commentator, and author.
Joy Reid is currently the host of The ReidOut, a new Washington-based weeknight show at the 7 p.m. on MSNBC.
Joy Reid Parents: Who are Joy Reid’s Mother and Father
Joy Reid’s parents’ names are obscure to the public.
However, Joy’s father was an engineer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and her mother was a college professor and nutritionist from Guyana. But they immigrated to the United States.
According to reports, her parents met in graduate school at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and after marrying for a couple of years they divorced and her father returned to the Congo.
Following the divorce, Joy’s mother single-handedly raised her and two other siblings; Oren Lomena and June A. Carryl until she died of breast cancer at age 55.