6 Facts About Joy Reid

1. In June 2018, Joy Reid formally apologized, saying she had evolved in the years since she wrote the posts: "I'm a better person today than I was over a decade ago.

2. In 2017, Joy Reid ranked fourth among Twitter's top tweeted news outlets and most tweeted journalist (@JoyAnnReid) at each outlet.

3. In a tweet, MSNBC political analyst Joy Reid pointed out this was the third Black female journalist he'd berated in 48 hours.

4. In June 2018, Joy Reid apologized, expressing her current opinions, and, after two days of deliberation.

5. In a 2013 interview on MSNBC, Joy Reid recalled that her college experience was a quick immersion into a demographically opposite place from where she lived, from a community that was 80 percent African-American to a community that was six percent African-American.

6. In 2017 and 2018, Joy Reid faced controversy after a series of what The New York Times called "incendiary" posts from her defunct, decade-old blog were rediscovered and shared on social media.