Jemele Hill is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she covers sports, race, politics, and culture. Before joining The Atlantic in October 2018, she co-anchored the evening airing of “SportsCenter” on ESPN, where she worked for nearly twelve years. Hill wrote a column for Page 2, co-hosted “His & Hers,” and made regular appearances on other ESPN programs. She began her career as a general assignment sports writer for the Raleigh News & Observer, was a sports writer at the Detroit Free Press (where she covered the 2004 Summer Olympics), and worked as a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel. Hill hosts a Spotify podcast, “Jemele Hill Is Unbothered.”
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