Jemele Hill
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Mark J. Rebilas / USA Today Sports via ... Why Don’t White Athletes Understand What’s Wrong With Trump?
The Red Sox players who visit the White House owe their black and brown teammates an explanation.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP It Hurts to See Nipsey Hussle’s Life Not Mattering
After a celebrated rapper is murdered, some admirers turn to wild theories, because the reality is too hard to face.
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Charles LeClaire / USA Today Sports / Reuters In Praise of Selfish NFL Players
Stars like Antonio Brown are supposed to sacrifice for their team’s sake, but teams don’t repay the favor.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters Kaepernick Won. The NFL Lost.
It doesn’t matter how much he made from the settlement announced on Friday; he bested the league.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Kamala Harris’s Blackness Isn’t Up for Debate
Her identity and motives are being unfairly challenged on all sides.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The NFL’s Truce With Trump Wasn’t Worth It
The league sacrificed its decency to buy the president’s silence, only to discover that with Trump, loyalty is a one-way street.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Conversation the Press Isn’t Having
Even when people of color do very American things, they still aren’t seen as being members of American culture.
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Michael Zagaris / San Francisco 49ers / Getty The War on Black Athletes
Trump isn’t the first president to show such overt interest in sports, but he’s the only president in recent memory to attack athletes for their politics.
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M. Spencer Green / AP / Katie Martin ... R. Kelly and the Cost of Black Protectionism
A Lifetime series that examines long-standing abuse allegations against the singer—and the continued support he has received despite them—contains an uncomfortable truth.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Sometimes I Wish the Obamas Wouldn’t ‘Go High’
They were gracious to the Trumps. They had to be.
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Michelle McLoughlin / Reuters He Suspended Me From ESPN, but We’re Still Friends
The political doesn’t always have to be personal.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters I Still Don’t Know If My Vote Will Be Counted in Florida
I went to vote in Florida—and discovered that my name had been removed from the rolls over something I’d tweeted.
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Erich Schlegel / Reuters Beto O'Rourke Grabbed a Political Third Rail—And Electrified His Campaign
By answering a question most Democratic politicians have refused to touch, the Texas Democrat has tapped into a powerful movement.
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Reuters What the Black Men Who Identify With Brett Kavanaugh Are Missing
When men of color see themselves in the embattled Supreme Court justice, they’re not seeing the bigger picture.
