Regina R. Robertson is the West Coast editor for Essence magazine. Her writing has been featured in O: The Oprah Magazine, Ebony, Honey, as well as the Associated Press. She has been a guest on NPR, E! Entertainment Television, Centric, and The View. She lives in Los Angeles.
Joy-Ann Reid is the host of the show AM Joy on MSNBC and a national correspondent appearing regularly on prime-time programs including Hardball with Chris Matthews and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. She formerly hosted the show The Reid Report on MSNBC. She served as the managing editor of TheGrio.com, has written columns for the New York Times, the Miami Herald, the Sun Sentinel, Salon, The Daily Beast, and the South Florida Times, and authored the book Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide. She lives in New York City.