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Jemele Hill Suspended From ESPN for Social Media Post
ESPN anchor Jemele Hill, who once tweeted that Donald Trump is a “white supremacist” (still looking for the lie), has been suspended for two weeks after violating what the sports station is calling “a second violation of social media guidelines.” After news broke that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones would be benching any player who…
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Jemele Hill and the Social Burden of Being a Black Woman in Media
When the situation involving Jemele Hill, ESPN and Donald Trump first made headlines, I remember being grateful that I work for a black media outlet. Day after day, I write posts that include news about the Trump administration, and in each of those posts, I ridicule the president and his administration while simultaneously calling out…
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It’s All Right to Say ‘White Supremacy’
Panelists Ask What ‘Racially Tinged’ Really Means Gregory’s 4 p.m. Service Called Too Late to Cover Clinton an Astute Media Critic in New Book Tribe Faulted for Indian Country Today Failures Chideya Named to J-Post at Ford Foundation Belton Officially Named Editor-in-Chief of The Root ‘Root 100’ Singles Out Black Journalists Short Takes A panel…
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ESPN Public Editor Says Jemele Hill Violated Policy
Tweeting Employees Must Play by Company’s Rules Why Were U.S. Media Slow on Caribbean Disaster? St. Louis Paper: Outrage at Verdict Understandable NBC Names Team to Cover Media; Scant Diversity Study: Asian Americans Still Marginalized on TV Women’s TV Progress ‘Continues to Be Incremental’ Threatened Mexican Journalist Denied U.S. Entry Blind Media Worker Reggie Anglen…
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Hit With Ethics Complaint After Calling for Jemele Hill to Be Fired
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the apologist mouthpiece for the Trump administration, is being hit with an ethics complaint for her words against ESPN’s Jemele Hill. The Democratic Coalition, a super PAC clear in its disdain for the current president, filed an ethics complaint against the current White House press secretary, who said that a tweet from…
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5 Things That Will Happen Before Jemele Hill Apologizes to Donald Trump
I do not know Jemele Hill personally, but I wish I did. In truth, I like to say that Hill is a throwback to a 1960s revolutionary (which she is), but Hill is in line with black women today. (Truthfully, black men, black women have been killing us on the “Stand up for yourselves” front.…
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Jemele Hill’s Regret on ‘Supremacist’ Tweet
Trump Spokeswoman: ESPN Host Should Be Fired 800 Invited Guests Pay Tribute to Jim Vance Omarosa Reportedly Isolated in White House Photographers of Color Let Editors Know They Exist Nina Garcia Named Editor of Elle Magazine Columnist Says ‘NFL Doesn’t Respect Humanity’ Mike Hodge Dies, Activist on TV, in Newsroom Lowery Book on Police Relations…
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White House Calls for ESPN to Fire Jemele Hill for Telling the Truth About Y’all’s Triflin’-Ass President
During a press briefing this afternoon, sentient Mein Kampf audiobook Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested that ESPN should fire Jemele Hill for her recent tweets about Darth Cheeto, continuing the trend of people on the right declaring everyone else to be snowflakes and then melting like a snow cone in a dumpster fire whenever someone dares…
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The White House Wants ESPN’s Jemele Hill Fired for Stating Facts
Because 53 percent of white women decided to turn their collective backs on America, Donald Trump is in office, and since then, I haven’t been able to figure out which side is up anymore. On Monday, ESPN’s Jemele Hill dropped some jewels on Twitter in which she called the president of the United States a…
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Black Public Figures Are Being Silenced for Calling Out White Supremacy
Blackness is a box. Its sides are close enough that if you spread your arms out far enough, you can touch them with both hands. While its ceiling may be tall, if you fly high enough or long enough, you will eventually crash into it. It is an inescapable boundary that every black person in…