| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Elie Mystal |
| Parents | Elie Mystal Mother : Elizabeth Ying Elie Mystal Father : Elie Mystal Sr |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | Born on May 10, 1978. As of 2025, he is around 47 years old. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Engaged / Spouse / Partner | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| How to pronounce Elie Mystal? | It’s pronounced like Eliot, with no “it,” while his last name is pronounced like Crystal. |
| Children / No. of Kids | 2 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | Black |
| Nationality | American |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Elie Mystal is an attorney who is now the managing editor of Above the Law, and the Editor-at-Large of Breaking Media.
- A published author, Elie is also a contributing writer for The Nation, and has written for several publications and appeared on several networks.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Elie Mystal was born in 1978.
- Elie’s dad, Elie Mystal Senior, who is now deceased, was the first elected African American legislator in the Suffolk County district. His mother’s name is Elizabeth Ying. Elizabeth was born in 1950 in Mississippi.
- In August 2004, Mystal got married to his wife, Christine Nyereyegonaand. The couple has two children.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Elie moved to Indiana during his senior year of high school.
- In 2000, Mystal graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor Degree in Government.
- He went on to earn his Juris Doctor (JD) from Harvard Law School in 2003.
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- After graduating from law school, Mystal began working at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York as a litigator.
- He soon decided to leave the prestigious law firm. The months following his resignation were not easy. Mystal admitted that he spent many days just being on the couch.
- After a few months, he worked part-time as an LSAT tutor and also as a freelance writer. He once stated that he started to blog due to boredom.
- In 2008, Mystal entered a contest at Above the Law (ATL), a news website dedicated to discussing and covering the law, law schools, and the legal profession.
- The contest was said to be an “American Idol” like competition. The former lawyer essentially won the contest and was later hired by the news agency.
- He now is the Managing Editor at ATL.
- Along with his job at ATL, he is the Editor at Large at Breaking Media and is a guest and contributor to major news organizations such as the New York Times and MSNBC.
- Mystal is now considered one of the most powerful voices in the world of political blogging.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Mystal has said that Harvard Law School was the most intellectually stimulating place that he has ever been.
- The former practicing attorney admits that his time with a big law firm was not all bad and actually got to do some pro-bono work. He goes on to admit that although he felt like it was helping real people doing pro-bono work, it was a lot more stressful thinking that they relied on your help so much.
- Elie admits to being a loud talker and a connoisseur of words who finds it hard to keep his mouth shut.
- He is a fan of the Mets and loves dogs.
- He acknowledges that in his home, his wife is the boss.
- Mystal was criticized in 2019 after saying that he has fantasized about vandalizing former President Trump’s property due to the agony that the President is putting the American people through.
- He is known to fight hard against racism and is said to be unapologetically aggressive when fighting for what he believes in, something that he is often criticized for by his opponents.
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I find nothing to respect in Elie Mystal. He is a Black Supremacist who seethes with hate and rage against a white society that has given him far more success than he deserves. Particularly vile is his op-ed that urges black jurors to never vote to convict a black defendant who commits a crime against a white victim. It doesn’t seem to faze him that he is exhorting readers who sit on juries to commit perjury when they take the jurors’ oath to decide the case on the basis of the evidence, even though Mystal wants them to decide the case on the basis of skin color.
Why does MSNBC provide a forum for his anti-white hate? He is not even a good journalist. He frequently utters broad, sweeping, and wholly speculative generalities about the motivations behind the beliefs held by various groups, without any factual basis for such views. Race relations are unlikely to ever improve as long as Mystal and others of similar persuasions are influential.
John, I love Elie Mystal, I don’t know what your problem is, you are obviously very sensitive regarding race for some reason.
Trey,
I cannot resist. What Trump did was turn in an actor’s performance of questionable quality because he was not believable to over 84 million people. In fact, he lost by a landslide, and for good reasons. And to say that minority employment depended on what he did is to ignore all the other efforts that came before him. Minority employment had been steadily decreasing long before his one term as president.
And furthermore, employment is just one aspect that deserves consideration in life. No doubt, the black community had its highest employment during slavery. Just because a job is available doesn’t mean employment is a good thing. There is much more to life and a chump-change job does not deliver the goods.
The survival of this country is firmly rooted in the truths that are being brought to the surface by Mr. Mystal and folks like him. We ignore him at our peril.
I call her black noise
It is a joy to hear you speak.
You need to make a correction…When a person graduates from Harvard with an undergraduate degree i.e, BA degree. This person has graduated from Harvard College…not Harvard University. A graduate degree would be from Harvard University, i.e MBA degree.
Where to start? All people are flawed. Me, Mystal, you. Take off the blinders, stop the hyperbole, As a white man of 73 years, I will know progress has been made when people can walk in communities different from theirs, without fear. Xenophobia, you say, self-preservation, I say. So much to do, but, if you think you can change human nature from one side of the equation I have an outhouse to sell you.
Keep up the dividing, like Robert Bird.
Is anybody applying any critical thinking to what this man has been saying? Clearly, they don’t teach anything of love, forgiveness, or wisdom at Harvard. This man could be a hero for building bridges to unity, but he wants vengeance! He can explain why to his God at some point in his future.
Elie is just another anti-American race baiter like Al Sharpton etc. He hates Donald Trump because Trump did more for the black community in a few years than he ever expects to do.
Funny Sir, You and your cause “wish to destroy white people who voted for Trump”.
I believe people like you will answer for your sins like me and everyone else.
Elie,
You will not remember me, my wife, or my daughter, but your Mom was my daughter’s speech therapist when we lived in NY. If she would like to catch up, have her write.
Sorry people, the name was suppose to be Elie Mystal in my post! I have a crazy spell check on my tablet!! Very Sorry!!
I love, love, love Mr. My Steal!! I am always searching to see if I can catch him on MSNBC! I haven’t seen him in a while and then I just happen to catch him on Arm Member yesterday!! What a treat!! He says everything that I wish I could say to Trump, but my extra words would surely land me in jail!!! So, I digress! Lol!! He always makes me feel like we have someone really fighting for us!! AND DON’T WORRY ELIE, MY MOUTH IS JUST AS LOUD AS YOURS!! LOVE IT!!
I love this guy! Especially because he can’t keep his mouth shut with his beautiful words, ‘one Republican that wants a balanced budget is George Will and Carlson from Fresh Prince!”
Priceless! That’s why I love him; he paints amazing pictures in your mind as things relate from a disparate idea here and there into magic like a flippant comment gold above from today!
Kudos, dude! Keep it up!
Elie is soooo REAL! He gives the substance of the issue. We need his voice.
Dude is a racist.
Would love to stay posted all upcoming and world events and Cummins from you
I love to see more of Elie on national television. Whenever I’m fortunate enough to see on MSNBC. I immediately drop what I’m doing and lock in. The thing I love about Elie he is always spot on with his comments. I want to see him with his own TV show.