Rembert Browne
{{short description|American writer}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1987}}
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| education = Dartmouth College
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| occupation = Journalist
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| subject = Pop culture, sports, politics
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Rembert Browne (born 1987) is a writer who primarily focuses on pop culture, politics and sports.{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/press/2015/10/rembert-browne-joins-new-york-magazine-as-writer-at-large-for-di-and-vulture.html|title=Rembert Browne Joins New York Magazine As Writer-at-Large|website=New York Press Room|access-date=March 16, 2016}} Previously Browne wrote for Grantland, then for New York Magazine.{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/espn-bill-simmons-breakup|title=The Drama Continues at Grantland|last=Miller|first=James Andrew|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=October 19, 2015|access-date=June 28, 2016}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.cision.com/us/2017/03/cisionscoop-rembert-browne-exits-new-york-mag/|title=CisionScoop {{!}} Rembert Browne Exits New York Mag|date=March 15, 2017|work=Cision|access-date=April 23, 2017|language=en-US}}
Early life
Browne grew up in Atlanta and attended The Paideia School, where his classmate was Jon Ossoff, now the senior U.S. senator from Georgia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/high-school-friend-jon-ossoff-almost-become-congressman-last-night/|title = My high school friend Jon Ossoff almost became a Congressman last night|date = April 19, 2017}} He graduated from Dartmouth College in 2009 with a degree in sociology, public policy and geography. While attending Dartmouth, Browne wrote for The Dartmouth, the student newspaper.{{Cite web|url=http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-146-rembert-browne|title=Longform: Longform Podcast #146: Rembert Browne|website=Longform|access-date=March 16, 2016}} He later attended Columbia University in pursuit of a Master's degree in Urban Planning but left the program when he was offered a full-time position at Grantland. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Andrea Gompf.
Writing
Browne has drawn notice for his journalism on a wide variety of topics, including music,{{cite news|last1=Drucker|first1=Eric|title=A Rational Conversation: Rembert Browne On Music In 2015, Even During The Hard Times|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/12/30/461484518/a-rational-conversation-rembert-browne-on-music-in-2015-even-during-the-hard-tim|access-date=July 7, 2016|agency=NPR|date=December 30, 2015}} sports,{{cite news|url=http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/06/doris-burke-drake-raptors-game-6-nba-playoffs-heart-flirt-uhh-stop|title=Doris Burke says Drake pointed at her and made a heart sign during Raptors Game 6|date=June 3, 2016|work=USAToday|last1=Tsuji|first1=Alysha|access-date=July 7, 2016}} and politics,{{Cite news|url=http://fusion.net/story/323539/how-bernie-sanders-lost-black-voters/|title=How Bernie Sanders lost black voters|last=Starr|first=Terrell Jermaine|date=July 10, 2016|work=Fusion|access-date=July 28, 2016}} interviewing President Obama on the 50th anniversary of the Selma March{{cite news|last1=Sargent|first1=Jordan|title=Landing An Interview With Barack Obama Isn't Cool Anymore|url=http://tktk.gawker.com/landing-an-interview-with-barack-obama-isnt-cool-anymor-1723438255|access-date=July 7, 2016|agency=Gawker|date=August 12, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622214224/http://tktk.gawker.com/landing-an-interview-with-barack-obama-isnt-cool-anymor-1723438255|archive-date=June 22, 2016|df=mdy-all}} and serving as a moderator of the Iowa Democratic Brown and Black Presidential Forum during the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign.{{cite news|last1=Aleem|first1=Zeeshan|title=Here's What You Need to Know About Monday's Brown & Black Forum|url=https://mic.com/articles/132359/here-s-what-you-need-to-know-about-monday-s-brown-black-forum#.QFtgKr86J|access-date=July 7, 2016|agency=Mic.com|date=January 12, 2016}} Browne covered the Republican and Democratic National Conventions for New York Magazine in 2016.{{Cite news|url=http://reason.com/blog/2016/07/25/sex-and-nightlife-at-the-rnc|title=Sex, Booze, and Boehner's Warehouse: An RNC Nightlife Recap|last=Brown|first=Elizabeth Nolan|date=July 25, 2016|work=Reason|access-date=July 28, 2016}}
In 2016, Forbes magazine named Browne to its 30 Under 30 list,{{cite news|last1=Emerson|first1=Bo|title=Forbes '30 Under 30' includes Atlanta entrepreneurs|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/news/forbes-30-under-30-includes-atlanta-entrepreneurs/npx5M/|access-date=July 7, 2016|agency=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=January 8, 2016}} citing his work on "everything from reporting on the ground in Ferguson, to interviewing President Obama on Air Force One, to covering pop culture."{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/pictures/flji45ffil/rembert-browne-28/#2c1a7f2749f9|title=Rembert Browne, 28 – In Photos: 2016 30 Under 30: Media|last=Inverso|first=Emily|website=Forbes|access-date=June 28, 2016}} He was selected with four other journalists to fly with [[Barack Obama|
President Barack Obama]] to Selma, Alabama on March 7, 2015 to report on commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965.Jennifer Wulff. [https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/world-according-rembert The World According to Rembert: Catching up with writer Rembert Browne, who delivers his singular mashup of politics, culture and celebrity in New York magazine each week], Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, July–August, 2016
The A.V. Club has called Browne, "a thoughtful critic who speaks with the voice of young America"{{cite news|last1=Cannon|first1=Ben|title=Miranda July nerds out, while David Cross and Jon Hamm laugh it up|url=http://www.avclub.com/detail/miranda-july-nerds-out-while-david-cross-and-jon-h-214585|access-date=July 8, 2016|work=The A.V. Club|date=February 2, 2015}} and Brooklyn Magazine included him on its list of "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture," praising his "sharp-witted, playful and incisive voice."{{Cite web|url=http://www.bkmag.com/2016/03/01/the-100-most-influential-people-in-brooklyn-culture-2/|title=The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture|date=March 1, 2016|website=Brooklyn Magazine|access-date=June 28, 2016}} Offering a eulogy for Grantland after ESPN shuttered the website, The New Republic said Browne illustrated the way Grantland was "fun because it was smart, and because it was run by human beings...Browne’s long, absurdly detailed critical analysis of a photo of Nicki Minaj surrounded by dorky teenagers at a bar mitzvah{{Cite web|url=http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/going-way-too-deep-down-the-rabbit-hole-with-nicki-minajs-recent-bar-mitzvah-appearance/|title=Going Way Too Deep Down the Rabbit Hole With Nicki Minaj's Recent Bar Mitzvah Appearance|last=Browne|first=Rembert|date=April 27, 2015|language=en-US|access-date=June 28, 2016}} [was] a singular example of how much fun one could have on the internet...an inspired, creative bit of fun."{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/123312/eulogy-grantland|title=A Eulogy for Grantland|last=Shephard|first=Alex|date=October 30, 2015|magazine=New Republic|access-date=June 28, 2016}}
USA Today named Browne's Grantland piece on Kevin Durant to its list of "The 13 Greatest Pieces of Sportswriting in 2013"{{cite news|last1=Shanoff|first1=Dan|title=The 13 greatest pieces of sportswriting in 2013|url=http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/12/best-sportswriting-of-2013-quickish-list-year-end|access-date=July 7, 2016|agency=USA Today|date=December 31, 2013}} and Flavorwire cited his reporting on the Ferguson protests as "Longform You Have to Read: Race in America."{{cite news|last1=Donnelly|first1=Elisabeth|title=Longform You Have to Read: Race in America|url=http://flavorwire.com/474617/longform-you-have-to-read-race-in-america|access-date=July 7, 2016|agency=Flavorwire|date=August 28, 2014}}
Other media
Other projects led by Browne include Grantland's Rembert Explains podcast—praised by The A.V. Club as "knowledgeable and enthusiastic...making for a spirited conversation"{{cite news|last1=Cannon|first1=Ben|title=Jessica Hopper talks The First Collection Of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic|url=http://www.avclub.com/detail/jessica-hopper-chats-first-collection-criticism-li-216195|access-date=July 8, 2016|work=The A.V. Club|date=March 9, 2015}}—as well as a popular Tumblr called Peak Blackness.{{cite news|last1=Demby|first1=Gene|title=In Search of Peak Blackness.|url=http://www.postbourgie.com/2012/12/04/in-search-of-peak-blackness/|access-date=July 8, 2016|work=PostBourgie|date=December 4, 2012}} He spoke at The New Museum's Ideas City conference on Detroit{{cite news|last1=Abbey-Lambertz|first1=Kate|title=What Every Artist Needs To Know About Fighting Gentrification|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/artists-gentrification-development-detroit_us_5730a633e4b016f3789653fa|access-date=July 11, 2016|work=The Huffington Post|date=May 9, 2016}} and at the Museum of the Moving Image's screening of ESPN's 30 for 30: O.J.: Made in America.{{cite news|last1=Yates|first1=Clinton|title=Ezra Edelman|url=https://andscape.com/allday/ezra-edelman/|access-date=July 11, 2016|work=Andscape|date=May 19, 2016}}
With Ta-Nehisi Coates, Browne co-wrote Black Panther: World of Wakanda #6 for Marvel Comics, published April 19, 2017.{{cite web|last1=Markus|first1=Tucker Chet|title=World of Wakanda: The Return of Kasper Cole|url=https://news.marvel.com/comics/62091/world-wakanda-return-kasper-cole/|website=News {{!}} Marvel.com|publisher=Marvel Comics|access-date=April 23, 2017}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.buzzfeed.com/anotherround/episode-20-rembert-browne-interview-peak-blackness Buzzfeed's Another Round, Episode 20: Peak Blackness with Rembert Browne]
- [https://www.si.com/tech-media/2016/07/06/si-media-podcast-rembert-browne-grantland-simmons SI Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch, Episode 66: Rembert Browne]
- [https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-146-rembert-browne Longform Podcast, Episode 146: Rembert Browne]
- [http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6229103/the-juice-podcast-ferguson-michael-brown-the-importance-of-hip Billboard, The Juice Podcast August 22, 2014: Rembert Browne, Brandon "Jinx" Jenkins, Sean Stout, Damien Scott]
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