Watch the ReidOut with Joy Reid Highlights: May 8

Joy-Ann Reid on Instagram: "#voting is power. That’s why the bad guys have always tried to keep us from doing it. . Repost from @nowweknownews • Black woman encouraging people to vote shows her t shirt with her poll tax exemption from 1960. Poll taxes and literacy tests were used frequently across the South to disenfranchise Black voters. Poll taxes were abolished by the 24th Amendment in 1964 but Southern Democrats tried to find ways around them by including them in certain elections. The pract

Joy-Ann Reid on Instagram: "Rappers #snoopdog #nelly and #rickross are facing fan backlash after performing at events tied to inaugural festivities for #donaldtrump … @snoopdogg and @nelly in particular are being roasted on their own instagram accounts and in the comments of posts of interviews or commentary on the subject. What changed, particularly for Snoop, who in 2017 brutally mocked any artist who would perform for Trump? Will fans forgive and forger? What about #chrissettemichelle ??? Sha

Joy Reid signs off on The Reid Report