Clay Cane was born in Washington State and later moved to Philadelphia, PA as a teenager with his mother. Not much is said about his family but in an interview with Vibe magazine he did say “ My mother has nothing more than an eighth grade education and she gave me some serious ​affirmation” in response to a question about how supportive his mother was of him being a young black gay boy. He also said this about his upbringing in the same Vibe magazine interview “ But me as somebody who is black with a white mother, who is from Philly also Washington State, who grew up poor as hell, who also had a crazy religious experience, I have all these identities and intersections.” He attended and graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey with a BA in English and African-American studies Clay’s commentary is heard on television networks such as MTV, HLN, ABC, MSNBC, FOX and CNN.

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