The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump, Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race, Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church
Notable awards
New York Festivals Radio 2022 Awards, GMAD's 2016 James Baldwin Revolutionary Award.
Clay Cane is a journalist, author, political commentator, and radio host. He is the author of The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump (2024).[1] Cane is also the host of The Clay Cane Show on
SiriusXM Urban View channel 126.
Cane is the co-editor and contributing writer of the 2012 anthology For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home. He also contributed to Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships in the African-American Community. In 2015, Cane created, directed and produced the BET.com original documentary Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church. The film explored homophobia in the black church by tackling the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and religion, earning a 2016 GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Digital Journalism.[4] On February 24, 2016,
The White House[5] featured Cane as a
Black History Month speaker along with a screening of the documentary. In 2017, he released Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race.[6] In 2024, he released the New York Times best seller[7]The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump.
Published works
The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump (Sourcebooks, 2024)[8]
Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race (Cleis Press, 2017)[9]
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home (Magnus, 2012)[10]
Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships in the African-American Community (Agate Bolden, 2013)[11]
^Cane, Clay (January 30, 2024). The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans From the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump. Sourcebooks, Incorporated.
ISBN978-1728290225.
^Cane, Clay (June 13, 2017). Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race. Start Publishing LLC.
ISBN978-1627782180.
^Boykin, Keith (2012). For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home. Magnus Books.
ISBN978-1936833153.
^Gil l. Robertson, IV (2013). Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships in the African-American Community. Agate.
ISBN978-1932841701.