Clay Cane Biography
Clay Cane is a radio personality, journalist, author, and political analyst. He directed and produced the documentary Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church. Clay Cane Live was a weekly call-in and political radio talk show on WWRL 1600AM, which also broadcast Reverend Al Sharpton and Ed Schultz.
Clay Cane Age
Clay was born and raised in the United States of America.
Clay Cane Education
He graduated from Rutgers University, Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA in English and African-American studies.
Clay Cane Family
Attempts to establish the identities of his family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Clay Cane Career
In December 2013, the station broadcast its final broadcast after 86 years. Cane returned to SiriusXM Urban View channel 126 in November 2017 for The Clay Cane Show, which has featured interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Dan Rather, Tyler Perry, Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, Michael Eric Dyson, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Jenifer Lewis, and others. Cane’s Exonerated series received the Best Regularly Scheduled Social Justice Program award from the New York Festivals Radio Awards in 2022. He was a member of the New York Film Critics Online and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association prior.
Cane co-edited and contributed to the anthology For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home, published in 2012. He also contributed to the book Where Did Our Love Go: African-American Love and Relationships. Cane developed, directed, and produced the original BET.com documentary Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church in 2015. The film, which premiered at NYU in November 2015, investigated homophobia in the black church by addressing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and religion. The film was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism in 2016 and a Black Reel Award for Best Television Documentary or Special. On the 24th of February, 2016.
Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race is Cane’s first book. Cleis Press published the book in 2017. Cane’s views on the intersections of class and race, which do not shy away from the quagmire of being poor in America, resonate in today’s difficult political context,” according to Publishers Weekly. Even when confronted with difficult topics like domestic violence, sexual exploitation, food insecurity, and poor mental health care, he maintains his sense of humor and compassion.” The Swindle: Black Republicans’ Fall from Grace Sourcebooks will publish From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump in 2024. Part history, part cultural critique, the book traces the difficult history of Black Republicans.
Clay Cane Books
- The Grift
- Live Through This
- For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough
- Where Did Our Love Go
Clay Cane Net Worth
Cane has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.