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Jemele Hill at 1010 Wines Book Launch *We caught up with Emmy Award-winning journalist Jemele Hill to dish on her recently released book titled “UPHILL: A Memoir.” Hill is the co-founder of Lodge Freeway Media, a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and host of the Jemele Hill is Unbothered podcast on Spotify. She gets […]

Jemele Hill *In an exclusive interview to air Sunday on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” (tomorrow morning, Sunday at 8amET), Jemele Hill speaks one-on-one with host Rev. Al Sharpton in her first interview since leaving ESPN’s SportsCenter. A preview of the interview is below. Full transcript and video will be available following the interview. SHARPTON: How do […]

[…] going after the black woman who shared similar sentiments. Racist much? Trump’s White House has ESPN’s public editor Jim Brady quivering, so he attempted to clean up Jemele Hill’s so-called “mess” by stating that she violated the company’s social media policy in her tweets calling Trump a white supremacist. As you know, Trump is calling […]

Jemele Hill (Photo by Michael Tran/FilmMagic) *Jemele Hill revealed during a recent appearance on Revolt TV’s Assets Over Liabilities that while working at ESPN she was paid $200,000 less than co-host Michael Smith, “though we were doing the same job,” she said.  “It’s not so much about what you’re worth, it’s about what you will negotiate. I started at ESPN at such a low salary to begin with. One of those, ‘We’ll see how it works kind of contracts. A 2-and-2 contract: two-year deal with a two-year option, one of the worst contracts I ever signed,” she explained, as reported by MadameNoire. “My first year was $120,000, but that’s as an independent contractor, so that means I had to pay my own taxes and no health insurance. The lesson that I learned, you can’t sell out for a name,” she added. Hill joined ESPN in 2006 as a columnist and ultimately landed appearances on “Outside the Lines,” “First Take” and “SportsCenter,” where she became a co-anchor alongside Smith in February 2017. READ MORE: Cari Champion and Jemele Hill Join CNN+ with Weekly Show | VIDEO “It wasn’t until I got to ESPN that I really got serious about the business side of journalism because I got to see what people made. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s possible?!’ ESPN forced me to really grow up because it’s a different game being played at that level than it is at the previous places I had been,” Hill explained to the show’s hosts Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings. “This is the first time I had an agent and the first time I really had to learn how to manage my money.” Hill’s first news job with the Detroit Free Press answering phones for the sports department.  “Journalism is very much a ‘working class’ profession, especially on a local level,” she said. “I thought I would be winning the game if I made $50,000. ‘If I made 50 grand, I’m out here ballin!’” she said about her early career.  During her tenure with ESPN, Hill was often criticized for speaking about her political and social opinions. In 2018, she left the network and her role at “SportsCenter.”  My guest on this week’s episode of @JHillUnbothered is @BerniceKing. We discuss how non-violence is key in movement building, what today’s civil rights movement lacks, and why it took her some time to truly embrace the King family legacy. TO LISTEN —> https://t.co/IP5WN3Sqmb pic.twitter.com/jRYoYGmMjG — Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) May 31, 2022 “The thing about ‘SportsCenter,’ was never my dream job, so it was easy to walk away. That’s because I was unhappy. I didn’t like the job,” she recalls. “I didn’t like some of the things they were doing to our show, I didn’t like […]

[…] Belasco Theatre on August 10, 2017 in New York City. (Aug. 9, 2017 – Source: Mike Coppola/Getty Images North America) *The Rev. Al Sharpton expressed outrage Monday over Jemele Hill’s two-week suspension by ESPN. Sharpton has threatened a boycott of the network after Hill was suspended for two weeks for what ESPN termed a “second violation” of […]

*Award-winning journalist, culture critic, and multi-hyphenate creator Jemele Hill expands her exclusive partnership with Spotify with a season three renewal of her critically acclaimed podcast Jemele Hill is Unbothered (June 28) and her own podcast network entitled The Unbothered Network —  a groundbreaking podcast and production company seeking to elevate the voices, stories, agency, and […]

Jemele Hill attends the 2021 Ebony Power 100 Presented By Verizon at The Beverly Hilton on October 23, 2021, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/WireImage) *Sports journalist Jemele Hill revealed in a tweet last week that she changes her bath towel every 3-4 days. In a tweet, Hill wrote: “So I […]

Bristol, CT – April 20, 2017 – Studio X: Jemele Hill on the set of SC6 with Michael and Jemele (Photo by Allen Kee / ESPN Images) *ESPN anchor Jemele Hill has penned an essay for the network’s website The Undefeated about the controversy surrounding her tweets calling Donald Trump a racist. While acknowledging that […]

*Turning Point USA communications director Candace Owens has challenged ESPN’s Jemele Hill to a racism debate after accusing the former “SportsCenter” anchor of being used by Democrats to “paralyze blacks with undue fear.” It all started after Hill quoted a CNN tweet about anti-gun protesters shutting down part of a highway in Chicago. Hill wrote an all-caps […]

*Variety is reporting that Michael Smith will anchor ESPN’s 6 p.m. ET “SportsCenter” alone for the remainder of Jemele Hill’s suspension. The two have co-anchored the high profile timeslot — billed as “SC6” — since February, following the end of their previous midday hour, “His & Hers,” on ESPN2. Tuesday will be Smith’s first solo […]

Jemele Hill *ESPN has announced that it accepts the apology of “Sports Center” host Jemele Hill, who came under fire this week after calling Donald Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter. Tons of athletes and ESPN fans came out in strong defense of Hill—and her comments. But the journalist apologized on Wednesday, after getting a […]

*Former ESPN SportsCenter anchors Jemele Hill and Cari Champion joined Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris for the latest installment of “Red Table Talk.” The ladies gathered for a conversation about mean girls and women supporting other women at work. “I can count on my hands how many friends I’ve had that have […]

Jemele Hill and her former SportsCenter buddy, Michael Smith *ESPN’s Jemele Hill gave her first interview since leaving “SportsCenter” with Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” and she explained that her move to the network’s The Undefeated website was “definitely, 100 percent, my choice” You recall how outrage erupted online over Hill’s tweets calling […]

*Sports journalist Jemele Hill and her fiancé, Ian Wallace, channeled Beyonce and Jay-Z for their engagement celebration in Hill’s hometown of Detroit. The couple filmed their own version of the Carter’s 2018 video Apesh*t at the Detroit Public Library and the Detroit Institute Of Arts. “Both have been pillars of our city. In many ways, […]

Jemele Hill is Unbothered podcast *Jemele Hill is setting the record straight amid reports that she is taking her “Unbothered” network of podcasts off of Spotify. Bloomberg reported Friday that the “Unbothered” network, including her own show “Jemele Hill is Unbothered,” was looking for a new home, as the company “has reconsidered its expensive […]