Charles Blow Biography
Charles Blow happens to be a liberal American journalist, New York Times commentator and op-ed columnist as well as current anchor for the Black News Channel. From 2008, he has been a New York Times Opinion columnist.
Charles Blow Age
He is 51 years old as of 11th August 2021. He was born in the year 1970 in Gibsland, Louisiana, US. His official name is Charles McRay Blow.
Charles Blow Family – Wife
He is separated. Blow’s primary home is in Atlanta, Georgia, and his secondary home is in Brooklyn, New York City, where his children grew up. Tahj, his eldest son, completed from Yale University, while Ian and Iman, his twins, completed from Middlebury College and Columbia University, respectively. Blow came out to the general public as bisexual in the year 2014.
Charles Blow Education
In his hometown, he went to Gibsland Coleman High School, where he started the school newspaper and completed as valedictorian in the year 1988. He got a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Grambling State University, where he finished magna cum laude. As a student, he did his internship at the Shreveport Times, News Journal, and also The New York Times, edited the Gramblinite student newspaper, as well founded the now-defunct Razz student magazine.
Charles Blow Net Worth
He has a net worth of about $5 Million.
Charles Blow The Devil You Know
Blow wrote The Devil You Know: A Black Manifesto in the year 2021, in which he advocates for people of color to take direct action by moving to the states where they can build a political majority.
Charles Blow Books
He has authored two books; The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto as well Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
Charles Blow New York Times
Blow started his profession as a graphics artist for The Detroit News before shifting to the New York Times as a graphics editor in the year 1994. He at long last rose to the rank of head of the graphics department at The New York Times, which he called it quits in 2006 to be the art director of National Geographic. He started writing a column for The New York Times in the month of April 2008.
Charles Blow Career
He was as well the president of Grambling State’s Kappa Alpha Psi chapter. His column used to feature weekly on Saturdays. Come May 2009, it became a weekly feature, and by December the year 2012, it was featuring twice a week. It will feature every Monday and Thursday beginning the month of May 2021. Blow is all the time seen on CNN and MSNBC. Come February 22nd 2012, in response to Romney’s remark concerning two-parent households, Blow referred to Romney’s “magic underwear,” an apparent reference to the Temple Garment.
The remark was criticized to be insensitive to Mormons. Romney responded jokingly, “I guess we’re finding out for the first time that the media is somewhat biased.” afterwards, Blow made an apology. Come 2017, Blow gave a speech at the University of Texas at Austin. Blow’s book-length memoir, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, was lauched in the year 2014. Blow called Donald Trump a “bigot” in the month of August 2016, while featuring on CNN with Donald Trump presidential campaign delegate Bruce Levell, and claimed that anyone who supported Trump is “part of the bigotry itself.”
Blow started hosting Prime with Charles M. Blow, a prime time show on the Black News Channel, in the month of April 2021. The Metropolitan Opera in New York City launched its 2021-2022 season in September the year 2021 with an opera adaptation of Blow’s memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Terence Blanchard is a Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and composer, he happens to be the Met’s first Black composer to have an opera performed.