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Jemele Hill’s $6 million buyout part of ESPN’s efforts to avoid race and gender in sports
ESPN’s new boss Jimmy Pitaro told Business Insider back in May that “We (ESPN) are not a political organization, we are a sports-media company.” this position seems to have taken its toll on a few employees, chiefly Jemele Hill. Hill’s relationship with the company seemed to be souring following tweets arguing that the best way […]
Jemele Hill is finally out of SportsCenter after a year of controversies, joins The Undisputed
Jemele Hill is getting out from behind the desk at ESPN’s SportsCenter and will be taking on a role at The Undefeated, ESPN’s platform that explores intersections between race, culture, politics and sports as its chief correspondent and senior columnist. This is a move which Hill says was spurred by a realization that she missed […]
Jemele Hill suspended by ESPN for telling the truth
“I can’t pretend as if this isn’t a challenging time in our country’s history. As a career journalist, I can’t pretend that I don’t see what’s happening in our world. I also can’t pretend as if the tone and behavior of this presidential administration is normal. And I certainly can’t pretend that racism and white […]
Jemele Hill and Michael Smith To Take Over 6 P.M. ‘SportsCenter’ Slot
Jemele Hill and Michael Smith have been a staple at ESPN since even before His and Hers came on the air in 2013. Their chemistry has always shown through and their ability to have a normal conversation about sports topics has always made their show more relatable than most. They’ve done everything from talk about the […]
What Kevin Spacey’s “apology” says about how whiteness operates in marginalized spaces
by Ashley Nkadi This past weekend, Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp chimed in on the ongoing #MeToo conversation, adding his own personal account of being assaulted by actor Kevin Spacey when he was just 14-years-old. Rapp recounted the event to Buzzfeed, alleging that toward the end of a party at Spacey’s apartment, Spacey “picked [him] […]
On the Very Real Possibility of a Super Bowl Conspiracy
By Summer McDonald Among the collective gasps, OMGs, and guttural expressions of utter shock from seasoned 12s and Seahawks bandwagon riders alike after Russell Wilson threw an axis-altering interception in last Sunday’s Super Bowl, was some version of this question: Why in the world did they not give the ball to Marshawn Lynch? Since […]
Cari Champion, Artie Lange, and the price of being a black woman in public
The following post is from Feministing. It was written by Mychal Denzel Smith. By: Mychal Denzel Smith While the country was voting, or trying to convince people to vote, or wondering if Lil’ Jon would make it to Georgia in order to vote, or debating Lena Dunham, comedian Artie Lange was being a racist, […]
Commercial Break: Athlete Slash Musician
It seems I’ve been more polemical than usual these last few weeks. So how about something completely worthless and asinine–ok, more worthless and asinine than what I usually post here–this Monday? Because, frankly, all I have to say about The Help‘s (and The Smurfs’) continued box office success this weekend is: Effing really‽‽ (God bless the interrobang.) Anyway, in case […]