Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Antoine Bouie (born April 12, 1987) is an American columnist for ''The New York Times''. He was formerly chief political correspondent for ''Slate''. David Uberti, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2019, called Bouie "one of the defining commentators on politics and race in the Trump era".

Early and personal life

Bouie was born and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He attended Floyd E. Kellam High School, from which he graduated in 2005. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2009, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political and social thought and government. While there, he began blogging, which eventually led to interest in a career in journalism.

Bouie previously lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and , he is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Career

Bouie was awarded a writing fellowship for ''The American Prospect'' in 2010. He was awarded a Knobler Fellowship at the Nation Institute by ''The Nation'' in 2012. Bouie became a staff writer for ''The Daily Beast'' in 2013, writing about national politics. He moved to ''Slate'' as a chief political correspondent in 2014. He joined ''The New York Times'' as a columnist in 2019. 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. Bouie writes articles focusing on history, public policy, and national politics, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He also writes about entertainment, such as science fiction, comics, and film.

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. Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, he wrote an article for ''Slate'' arguing that there was "no such thing as a good Trump voter". Several days earlier, he compared Trump voters to the "angry, recalcitrant whites" who resisted the Reconstruction era after the American Civil War. He has criticized the media for an unwillingness to label racism in the United States as "racist", opting instead for terms such as "racial" and "racially charged". He also criticized the media for its "horse-race" coverage of the 2016 presidential election. He said the NPR interview between Noel King and Jason Kessler was "absolute journalistic malpractice". His writing on racial and national politics subjects is often quoted by other journalists.

Bouie has been a political analyst on CBS News since 2015. He frequently appears on ''Face the Nation'', the network's Sunday morning show, and contributed to the network's 2016 election night coverage. ''The New York Times'' announced that Bouie would join their lineup of opinion columnists in January 2019. The newspaper stated that Bouie has "consistently driven understanding of politics deeper by bringing not only a reporter’s eye but also a historian’s perspective and sense of proportion to bear on the news. His interests ... range well beyond politics to the visual arts, food and movies."

Recognition

In 2012, Bouie was chosen for ''The Root''s Root Top 100. The site stated that "his is a strong, influential and necessary voice during the 2012 election season and beyond."

''Forbes'' recognized Bouie in its "30 Under 30 – Media" list in 2015, saying that "he became a leading voice on the Ferguson story."

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