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, and they were back to back,” he recalled. “Being a black journalist, especially in 2020, was very disheartening because there's so much death and so much negative things happening to the community, things happening within the community. At theGrio, we decided to to double-down on our mission to amplify the voices of Black and brown people and to tell their stories and tell them accurately.
Gaynor grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, known locally as “Bed-Stuy,” but in his neighborhood, “They called it Bed-Stuy, Do or Die,” he said. His mother is a retired NYPD officer and his dad worked as a conductor on the New York City subway, in addition to being a minister. So when he was 19, and had fallen in love with another man, his father confronted him about being gay. Gaynor said wasn’t ready to come out.
Gaynor graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, and days before starting studying for his graduate degree at Columbia School of Journalism, his father died. They never reconciled, said Gaynor, but they did have that most important conversation in his final hours.
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