Clay Cane

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Clay Cane
BornUnited States
OccupationJournalist, author, television personality
Education Rutgers University
Notable worksThe Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump,
Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race,
Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church
Notable awardsNew York Festivals Radio 2022 Awards, GMAD's 2016 James Baldwin Revolutionary Award.

Clay Cane is a journalist, author, political commentator, and radio host. He is the author of The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump (2024). [1] Cane is also the host of The Clay Cane Show on SiriusXM Urban View channel 126.

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Early life and education

Cane earned a bachelor's degree in English and African-American Studies from Rutgers University. He was a member of academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa.

Career

Cane is the co-editor and contributing writer of the 2012 anthology For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home. He also contributed to Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships in the African-American Community.

In 2015, Cane created, directed and produced the BET.com original documentary Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church. The film explored homophobia in the black church by tackling the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and religion, earning a 2016 GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Digital Journalism. [2]

Cane's commentary has been heard on MTV, ABC, FOX, VH1, CNN, [3] and MSNBC. [4] On February 24, 2016, The White House [5] featured Cane as a Black History Month speaker along with a screening of the documentary. In 2017, he released Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race. [6] In 2024, he released the New York Times bestseller [7] The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump.

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References

  1. Cane, Clay; Books, Lavette (January 30, 2024). The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks. ISBN   978-1-7282-9022-5.
  2. "BET Receives GLAAD Award Nomination for Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church". BET.com. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  3. Cane, Clay (July 26, 2019). "Black Trump backers make his racial hypocrisy even more obvious". CNN.com. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  4. "'That's lunacy': MSNBC's Rick Tyler shutdown after claiming Biden and Trump are 'both sides of the same coin'". rawstory.com. September 4, 2022.
  5. "White House to screen documentary about homophobia in the black church". MSNBC.com. February 23, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  6. Cane, Clay (June 13, 2017). Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race. Jersey City, New Jersey: Cleis Press. ISBN   978-1-62778-218-0.
  7. "Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - Books - March 3, 2024". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved March 11, 2024.