1. Jamelle Antoine Bouie is an American columnist for The New York Times.
22 Facts About Jamelle Bouie
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Jamelle Bouie graduated from Floyd E Kellam High School in 2005.
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Jamelle Bouie previously lived and worked in Washington, DC; as of 2021, he is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Jamelle Bouie was awarded a writing fellowship for The American Prospect in 2010.
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Jamelle Bouie was awarded a Knobler Fellowship at the Nation Institute by The Nation in 2012.
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Jamelle Bouie became a staff writer for The Daily Beast in 2013, writing about national politics.
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Jamelle Bouie joined The New York Times as a columnist in 2019.
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Jamelle Bouie was a contributor to Barack Obama and the New America: The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics, a 2013 book edited by political scientist Larry Sabato.
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Jamelle Bouie has been a political analyst on CBS News since 2015.
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Jamelle Bouie frequently appears on Face the Nation, the network's Sunday morning show, and contributed to the network's 2016 election night coverage.
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Jamelle Bouie writes articles focusing on history, public policy, and national politics.
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Jamelle Bouie writes about entertainment, such as science fiction, comics, and film.
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Jamelle Bouie has written extensively on racial politics, including slavery in the United States and the American Civil War, the killing of Trayvon Martin, the Ferguson unrest, the Charleston church shooting, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Jamelle Bouie's writing on racial and national politics is often quoted by other journalists.
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Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, Jamelle Bouie wrote an article for Slate arguing that there was "no such thing as a good Trump voter".
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Jamelle Bouie criticized the media for its "horse-race" coverage of the 2016 presidential election.
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Jamelle Bouie called the NPR interview between Noel King and Jason Kessler "journalistic malpractice".
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In 2019, The New York Times announced that Jamelle Bouie would join its lineup of opinion columnists.
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Jamelle Bouie suggested that DeSantis was attempting to develop a populist narrative to draw voters away from Trump in the 2024 Republican primaries without exposing his legislative history of favoring the wealthy.
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Jamelle Bouie encouraged journalists to redirect the narrative toward topics DeSantis avoided that were of more concern to voters who would be adversely affected by his policy proposals.
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Jamelle Bouie has an active presence on TikTok, which Slate noted as unusual for an opinion journalist working in legacy media.
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In 2012, Jamelle Bouie was chosen for The Roots Root Top 100.