Jamelle Bouie
Bouie in 2015
Born	Jamelle Antoine Bouie (1987-04-12)April 12, 1987 (age 38) Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.
Education	University of Virginia (BA)
Occupations	Journalist columnist writer
Years active	2010–present
Employer	The Daily Beast (2013–2014) Slate (2014–2019) The New York Times (2019–present)
Website	jamellebouie.net

Jamelle Antoine Bouie (/dʒəˈmɛlˈbuː.iː/; born April 12, 1987) is an American columnist forThe New York Times. He was formerly chief political correspondent forSlate. In 2019, writing in theColumbia Journalism Review, David Uberti called Bouie "one of the defining commentators on politics and race in theTrump era."^[1]

Bouie was born and raised inVirginia Beach, Virginia. He graduated fromFloyd E. Kellam High School in 2005.^[2] In 2009, he graduated from theUniversity of Virginia^[3] with abachelor of arts degree in political and social thought and government.^[4][5] While there, he began blogging, which led to interest in a career in journalism.^[6] Bouie previously lived and worked inWashington, D.C.; as of 2021^[update], he is based inCharlottesville, Virginia.^[6]

Bouie was awarded a writing fellowship forThe American Prospect in 2010. He was awarded a Knobler Fellowship at theNation Institute byThe Nation in 2012.^[7] Bouie became a staff writer forThe Daily Beast in 2013,^[8] writing about national politics.^[9] In 2014, he moved toSlate as a chief political correspondent, covering politics, policy, and race.^[10][11] He joinedThe New York Times as a columnist in 2019.^[12][13]

Bouie was a contributor toBarack Obama and the New America: The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics,^[14] a 2013 book edited by political scientistLarry Sabato.^[15] Bouie has been a political analyst onCBS News since 2015.^[16][12] He frequently appears onFace the Nation,^[17][18][19] the network's Sunday morning show,^[20] and contributed to the network's 2016 election night coverage.^[21] Bouie writes articles focusing on history, public policy, and national politics. He also writes about entertainment, such as science fiction, comics, and film.^[22] He has reviewedbreakfast cereal forSerious Eats.^[23]

Bouie has written extensively onracial politics,^[24][25] includingslavery in the United States and theAmerican Civil War,^[26] thekilling of Trayvon Martin,^[27][28] theFerguson unrest,^[29] theCharleston church shooting,^[30] and theBlack Lives Matter movement.^[31] His writing on racial and national politics is often quoted by other journalists.^[32][33][34] Shortly afterDonald Trump was elected president in 2016, Bouie wrote an article forSlate 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 theReconstruction era after theAmerican Civil War.^[35][36] He has criticized the media for an unwillingness to labelracism in the United States as "racist", opting instead for terms such as "racial" and "racially charged".^[37] He also criticized the media for its "horse-race" coverage of the 2016 presidential election.^[38] He called theNPR interview betweenNoel King andJason Kessler "journalistic malpractice".^[39]

In 2019,The New York Times announced that Bouie would join its lineup of opinion columnists.^[40]

Bouie is an accomplished photographer.^[41] His first public photography exhibition, in 2019, focused on towns in Oklahoma founded in the 19th century by former slaves.^[42] With John Ganz, he hosts theUnclear and Present Danger podcast exploring political thriller films of the 1990s and what they say about the United States' perception of the world in that era.^[43] He also has an active presence on TikTok, whichSlate noted as unusual for an opinion journalist working inlegacy media.^[44]

In 2012, Bouie was chosen forThe Root's Root Top 100. The site wrote, "his is a strong, influential and necessary voice during the 2012 election season and beyond".^[45]Forbes recognized Bouie in its "30 Under 30 – Media" list in 2015, writing, "he became a leading voice on the Ferguson story".^[46] He received theAmerican Political Science Association's 2025Carey McWilliams Award, which honors "a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics".^[47]

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