jemele hill
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Fires Are Raging in Calif. and Residents in Puerto Rico Still Don’t Have Drinking Water, so Why Is the President Tweeting About Jemele Hill?
In day No. 145 of “OMG, I hate this man,” it seems that the president has once again found a way to concern himself with matters that don’t concern him because he’s so low and petty he can’t help himself. On Monday, ESPN announced that it would be suspending news anchor Jemele Hill for two…
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ESPN Hasn’t Yet Realized That It Needs Jemele Hill More Than Jemele Hill Needs It
The president of the United States and his administration are in a de facto state of war against anyone who isn’t male, anyone who isn’t straight, anyone who isn’t white, anyone who isn’t Christian, anyone who isn’t wealthy, and anyone who doesn’t place the interests of straight and wealthy and Christian white men above the…
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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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94 Percent of Blacks Call Trump Unfit
60% of Hispanics Agree in New Poll Media Turn to Puerto Rico Despite Logistical Issues Lauren Williams Named Editor-in-Chief at Vox.com Jemele Hill Says She Let Down Her Colleagues Some in NFL Protest Fear Message Is Being Lost Expanded Duties for Rob King at ESPN First-Time TV Directors of Color Double Blacks Less Likely to…
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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 Funny How 1 Title Can Fuck Up the Game: Thoughts on the Response to Damon’s Piece About Black Men
1. I didn’t love the title, either. The substance of the piece itself was perfectly fine—to argue and debate that would be stupid (more on this later). It’s no different from conversations many of us have in any number of spaces we congregate when sober, perhaps not wrapped up in as neat a bow as…
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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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Is Donald Trump a White Supremacist? A Racial-Draft Analysis
White America is still clutching its pearls in response to ESPN host Jemele Hill’s Twitter rant calling Donald Trump a white supremacist. The fallout from the incident has sparked a lively debate in journalistic circles: Is it appropriate for a company’s employee to spout his or her political beliefs on a personal social media account?…
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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…