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Former ESPN sports reporter Jemele Hill is taking incoming fire on Twitter after she tweeted that American society was as bad as Nazi Germany. In a tweet Hill posted on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, the former host of Sportscenter’s popular shows “His & Hers,” and “Numbers Never Lie,” referred to former New York Times reporter…

Jemele Hill and Cari Champion are two of the most prolific voices in media today. Besides being veteran journalists and boasting stellar careers at ESPN, the self-proclaimed BFFs have consistently refused to mute their voices when the conversation around sports spilled over into racial equality and politics. Currently, the besties are co-hosting an all-new late-night…

The National Football League got put on blast by celebrities after it offered condolences for the police-involved deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor that have inspired a nationwide insurrection. Outspoken journalist Jemele Hill, a former sports reporter for ESPN, was particularly incensed that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has the audacity to even…

Music and media mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs incited quite the social media frenzy when he called for an”emergency family meeting” on Zoom and invited White comedian Amy Schumer to the virtual gathering. Diddy, 50, who is the founder and owner of Revolt TV, invited several nationally prominent personalities to address the myriad of racially charged…

Jemele Hill created a firestorm on social media after writing an article that encouraged top Black athletes to support HBCUs. Hill recently published “It’s time for Black athletes to leave White colleges” for The Atlantic’s October 2019 issue. In the article, Hill makes a strong case as to why top recruited athletes should attend Historically…

Last year, rolling out released a list of the top 10 Black women in sports journalism. This year, there continued to be an overwhelming amount of quality work produced by this still-underappreciated demographic. The self-proclaimed “Voice of Atlanta Basketball,” Bria Janelle, was this year’s in-game host at the McDonald’s All-American Game, in addition to touring…

Jemele Hill isn’t your average talking head. The ex-ESPN “SportsCenter” co-anchor blends the lines of sports and politics with ease, is a culture creator, and a successful sports journalist who isn’t afraid to speak out against social injustice. Since hosting an Emmy Award-winning town hall with former President Obama, Hill has been living her best life…

People are waking up Monday morning to the news that a former White employee at ESPN actually proferred the dubious claim that she was demoted at the predominantly White sports news network because she is White. Talk about a paradox. Britt McHenry, the ultra-conservative reporter who recently said all the NFL players who kneel during…

In 2017, the entire nation remained on edge mostly due to the political climate. Donald Trump’s first year in office was marred by multiple scandals, White House firings, and divisive messages that would have severe repercussions. The country reached a boiling point following the horrific events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.…

Since Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, the nation has experienced multiple incidents of overt racism and discrimination. At the same time, individuals who oppose things they know to be wrong, have taken a stand, protested, and come together to press for change — behaviors which have commonly become known as “social disruptions.” From the…

Disruption was the theme for the Atlanta Hawks’ third annual symposium. Keynote speaker Jemele Hill spoke about being a minority in the sports industry, dealing with the backlash from the president, and being a leader in your community.

Big Sean, Emagine theaters and Jemele Hill collaborated in a major way with Eminem, the Detroit Free Press, the Detroit Lions and the Ford Fund to surprise 900 Detroit Public Schools (DPS) with a free screening of Black Panther. The treat that began with a tweet by Hill announcing her plans to reward DPS students…

ESPN’s lightning rod Jemele Hill is a true Detroit native. The fighting spirit of Motown flows through her veins like so many red blood cells — meaning that she doesn’t back down, there is no arch in her back so she stands upright and meets your gaze, and she can knuckle up verbally with the…

The fact that Black women aren’t appreciated enough in America remained to be one of the more obvious statements in 2017. With all due respect to the consistent staples of Pam Oliver, Lisa Salters, and a handful of others, this is a list of the top 10 Black women in sports journalism today. It’s like not…

Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh had some choice words for Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio over his “beating Michigan” remark during a recent press conference. When asked about the fairness of the bowl game destinations for the Spartans and Wolverines, Dantonio said, “I just look at it as an opportunity to play in…

Presented by Oath, Serena and Venus Williams hosted their “A Family Affair” event at the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center (SETLC) in Washington, D.C. It was a day of tennis, fashion, empowerment and community discussion welcomed by Cora Masters Barry, founder of SETLC. In connection with the Williams Sister Fund, the tennis legends launched the…

Is this the end of the ESPN mega-brand as we know it? Or did we already witness the sports news giant’s power peak in the recent past? After surviving the bloodletting of the past two years filled with dozens of highly-publicized firings and layoffs, ESPN is ready to conduct yet another round after the Thanksgiving…

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It’s been two weeks since ESPN decided to suspend “Sportscenter“ broadcaster Jemele Hill for violating ESPN’s social media guidelines. Her tweets, which took aim at Donald Trump and Dallas Cowboy fans, were “impulsive” according to a letter issued by ESPN on Oct. 6,, 2017. Fellow colleague, Michael Smith, who hosts “SC6” with Hill, sat out…

This writer was initially surprised that any multimillionaire businessman, much less a famous one like Donald Trump, would take time out of his schedule to publicly lambaste comedian Rosie O’Donnell, as he is doing now with ESPN’s Jemele Hill, after O’Donnell had the gumption to criticize Trump’s mishandling of the Miss America pageant many years…

ESPN host Jemele Hill doesn’t mince words. First, she calls President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” on her Twitter account. That comment prompted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to say during a briefing that her comments about Trump were “a fireable offense by ESPN.” Hill apologized in September saying, “My comments on Twitter expressed…