Clay Cane Explained

Clay Cane
Birth Place:United States
Occupation:Journalist, author, television personality
Education:Rutgers University
Notableworks:The 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
Awards:New 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.

Career

A graduate of Rutgers University, Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA in English and African-American studies, Cane's commentary has been heard on MTV, ABC, FOX, VH1, CNN,[2] and MSNBC.[3]

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.[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 best seller[7] The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump.

Published works

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Cane . Clay . The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump . Books . Lavette . 2024-01-30 . Sourcebooks . 978-1-7282-9022-5 . Naperville, Illinois . English.
  2. Web site: Black Trump backers make his racial hypocrisy even more obvious. Cane. Clay. CNN. July 26, 2019. 2019-09-27.
  3. Web site: 'That's lunacy': MSNBC's Rick Tyler shutdown after claiming Biden and Trump are 'both sides of the same coin' . September 4, 2022 .
  4. Web site: BET Receives GLAAD Award Nomination for Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church . 2024-03-11 . BET . en.
  5. Web site: White House to screen documentary about homophobia in the black church . MSNBC . February 23, 2016. February 23, 2016.
  6. Book: Cane, Clay . Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race . 2017-06-13 . Cleis Press . 978-1-62778-218-0 . Jersey City, NJ . English.
  7. News: Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - Books - March 3, 2024 - The New York Times . 2024-03-11 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  8. Book: The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump . January 30, 2024. 978-1728290225 . Cane . Clay . Sourcebooks, Incorporated.
  9. Book: Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race . June 13, 2017. 978-1627782180 . Cane . Clay . Start Publishing LLC.
  10. Book: For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home . 978-1936833153 . Boykin . Keith . 2012 . Magnus Books .
  11. Book: Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships in the African-American Community . 978-1932841701 . Gil l. Robertson . IV . 2013 . Agate .

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