Reecie Colbert is a dynamic, versatile media mogul who’s never afraid to tell it how it is. Her naturally wistful and charismatic personality is magnetic and a fresh breath of authenticity in an internet realm of spurious and imitative people.
This has catapulted her into the limelight over the past several years, and as she continues to grow her platform in 2024, she has no plans of slowing down.
Even as a child, Reecie always had a passion for politics. Born in Boston but raised in Los Angeles, Reecie’s the oldest child and grandchild in her family. She is a natural-born leader who is always educating herself and is never afraid of dinner table debates. Reecie ran for student government in high school and was her freshman class president. For college, Reecie attended the University of California, Los Angeles. While she studied finance and economics, this didn’t extinguish her passion for social justice which kept her out on the streets protesting anti-affirmative action policies and volunteering for underserved communities.
Throughout her formative years, Reecie has always had this innate sense of confidence, which has shaped her bold online presence, which people adore. This confidence, coupled with her passion for social justice, politics and the Black community, was the perfect pairing for her to create these raw, unfiltered posts that garnered her thousands of followers. Of course, with fame comes hate, and Reecie has had to take on attackers from all sides, handling them with grace.
“I don’t aim to be callous or anything like that, but in terms of my convictions and if I believe something needs to be put out there-something needs to be said-then I stand in it,” she tells TheHub.news. “If I get backlash for it, I’m okay with that.”
Reecie has taken on her fair share of MAGA lovers, white supremacists, traditionalists and even KPOP fanatics-which she highlighted was the only time she accepted defeat. She’s never cried about these attacks but instead approached them with a classic “f*ck-em’” attitude.
For Reecie, the goal that inspired her media work was simple: she wanted to create a safe space that empowered Black women to unapologetically live in their truth. This is why she started her media blog, Black Women Views. Reecie founded Black Women Views in 2018 with the intention of creating open conversation and bridging the disconnect between pop culture, politics, history and more.
“What really inspired me was I wanted a space where Black women could be unboxed,” she said. “In the sense of-like-I am a person who likes Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow, but I also like ‘Love & Hip Hop’ and ‘Basketball Wives’ and ‘Queen Sugar’-all those shows-so I wanted a place where you didn’t have to kind of pick a side. You can engage in a conversation about a variety of things.”
She explained how the platform started out as 50% political commentary and 50% entertainment, but Reecie’s political content ramped up during the 2020 primaries and election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
In 2020, Reecie Colbert also connected with Clay Cane for the first time via Twitter following the announcement that Kamala Harris was on Biden’s VP ticket.
“I was one of…few-lets, just put it that way-people who were really well versed on the real record of Kamala,” she shares. “I was like the Kamala encyclopedia.”
Clay had her on the show to discuss Harris and kept inviting her back until she became a regular contributor and even fill-in host. As their work together continued to evolve, the pair became one of the greatest dynamic duos on the Urban View Channel. She is now a regular on the Clay Cane Show on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the two have traveled across the country connecting with their listeners in person at live events on their “Clay and Reecie Beyond The Mic” tour.
In 2022, Reecie released her Amazon bestselling series, “Long and Short of It Guide to the 2022 Midterms.” She explained that she was motivated to write this series because she didn’t see much enthusiasm around the elections and noticed faults in mainstream reporting.
“There wasn’t a digestible way of seeing who the candidates were and what was at stake,” she said. “So much of the conversation was around pundentry-scoring who was up and who was down at the moment, and I wanted more conversation about policy. I also recognize that people have different levels of engagement when it comes to having these conversations about politics.”
“Long and Short of It” does exactly what the title says, providing both long and short explanations of politics surrounding the Midterms for those who are invested in politics and those who aren’t so much but still need the information.
Reecie debuted her own show on Sirius XM’s Urban View Channel on January 28, 2023. You can catch the Reecie Colbert Show every Saturday at 3 PM EST on channel 126. Reecie self describes her show as “The Saturday Cookout.” It’s a time to reset the energy and bring in some Black women’s spirit while welcoming all listeners.
“Saturday, it’s three o’clock, you’re probably heading to an event-you’re trying to get your day going,” she said. “So I want [the show] to be fun, but I also want to touch upon important topics. Keep it fresh and engaging, not a rehash-a spark in your day as opposed to a pause.”
One popular segment on her show (which involved her live call-in audience) was ‘Am I Trippin?’ This includes a series of odd or problematic scenarios- sometimes personal- where Reecie and her audience decide whether or not the person is ‘trippin’ based on their actions or decisions. She loves giving advice and her audience loves her input. Reecie decided she wanted some type of ownership of this concept, but in order to trademark something, it needs to be tangible. This inspired Reecie to create the “Am I Trippin?” card game, which has received great praise from Urban View listeners. The conversation and debate-inducing game is hilarious and perfect for family/friend gatherings to see how people really think.
Reecie loves bringing joy to people’s lives, and creating the “Am I Trippin?” game opened her eyes to the realm of entrepreneurship. Now, she is working on releasing a new game soon, adding Game Mogul to her long list of accolades. Reecie Colbert is the embodiment of ‘Standing on Business.’ She is charming. She’s smart and she is genuine and fierce in her mission to empower Black women.
Reecie is enigmatic and welcoming to everyone who tunes in to her work. For many, she gives off this big sister/cousin energy as she is someone to look up to who’s always going to have an answer. A woman, a mother, a marvel, Reecie is unapologetically Black and unapologetically herself, paving her own trail for herself and other Black women with nothing to stop her.
“I am intentional about not backing down from the fact that as a Black woman, we can be unapologetic about how we feel-the things that we like and what we don’t like,” Reecie adds. “I’m very deliberate about making that space for other people.”
Let’s celebrate Reecie Colbert this Women’s History Month by tuning in to the Reecie Colbert Show on SiriusXM Urban View!
