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Heben nigatu and tracy clayton on msnbc live with thomas roberts
Tracy Clayton is a Buzzfeed writer "who gained national visibility as one of the hosts of Buzzfeed's hit podcast Another Round," and hailed as "Best of 2015" by iTunes, Slate, Vulture, and The Atlantic.
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- Heben nigatu and tracy clayton on msnbc live with thomas roberts
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- Early life
- Career
- Awards
- Personal life
- References
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Early life
Clayton is from Louisville, Kentucky and attended Transylvania University in Lexington.
Career
Before joining Buzzfeed full-time in 2014, Clayton wrote for Madame Noire, Uptown Magazine, The Urban Daily, PostBourgie and The Root. She developed the popular Tumblr, "Little Known Black History Facts", now a feature on Another Round.
An Okayplayer profile said, "Known all over the digital world as one of the sharpest voices in the podcast game as well as Black Twitter, Tracy Clayton is consistently one of the smartest people in whatever room she occupies." FastCompany named Clayton to its "Most Creative People 2016" list "for mixing comedy with commentary." Elle praised Clayton and co-host Heben Nigatu's ability to "serve up a blend of humor, politics, and frank observation that not even the most deft hosts can seem to replicate. Clayton...made headlines in the fall when she pressed [then-Presidential candidate Hillary] Clinton to address the crime bill her husband passed as president: '[D]o you ever look at the state of black America and think, Wow, we really fucked this up for black people?' "
The A.V. Club describes Clayton and Nigatu as "passionate and sharp in their distinct points of view" and The Guardian praises their work as "witty, irreverent, intelligent." Also writing for The Guardian, critic Sasha Frere-Jones called Clayton and Nigatu "leading American cultural critics."
Awards
In 2016, The Root named Clayton to The Root 100, the magazine's "list of 100 African Americans, ages 25-45, who are responsible for the year's most significant cultural moments, social movements and big ideas." The citation described Clayton as "a superstar at BuzzFeed, the millennial-driven media powerhouse where she writes big, funny things" and co-hosts Another Round, "an unapologetically black space that shuts down 'What will white people think?' respectability."
Clayton was named the 2016–2017 Ida B. Wells Media Expert-in-Residence at Wake Forest University's Anna Julia Cooper Center.
Personal life
Clayton lives in Brooklyn.