Jemele Hill
She is the author of Uphill: A Memoir. She was formerly a reporter for ESPN, where she co-anchored SportsCenter, and in 2018, she was named journalist of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists. She previously co-hosted Vice’s Cari & Jemele (Won’t) Stick to Sports and currently hosts the podcast Jemele Hill Is Unbothered.
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Mike Mattina / Getty Brittney Griner’s Plight Says More About America Than Russia
If the U.S. gave women’s basketball the respect it deserves, the WNBA star might not be in legal jeopardy.
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Mark Brown / Getty The NFL’s Black Coaches Should Stop Playing Along
They are expected to put up with a hiring system that, in practice, is plainly biased against them.
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Eric Espada / Getty; Paul Spinelli / AP The Continuing Humiliation of Black NFL Coaches
Recent firings highlight a long history of double standards and unrealistic expectations.
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Mike Frey / AFP / Getty The Selfishness of Novak Djokovic
The top player in men’s tennis is yet another anti-vaccine athlete who’d rather create chaos than get a shot.
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Nathaniel S. Butler / NBAE / Getty The NBA and NFL Surrendered to Their Vaccine Refusers
Pro basketball and football showed that tough rules work, but now the leagues are giving up.
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Cole Burston / Getty Enes Kanter Freedom Is Letting Himself Be Used
The Celtics player is getting support for all the wrong reasons.
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Dylan Buell / Getty Why Aaron Rodgers Felt Free to Mislead People
The Packers quarterback correctly assumed that a star like him could get away with bending the NFL’s COVID-19 rules.
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Ethan Miller / Getty Jon Gruden Just Put It in Writing
The deposed Raiders coach expressed bigoted attitudes that are all too common in the NFL.
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Carlos Avila Gonzalez / San Francisco Chronicle / … Why LeBron James Shouldn’t Cover for Vaccine Refusers
NBA players who are vaccinated against COVID-19 can help their sport by calling out Andrew Wiggins, Kyrie Irving, and other unvaccinated stars.
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Mitchell Leff / Getty Most NFL Players Understand What Cam Newton Doesn’t
Remaining unvaccinated is bad for a pro football player’s prospects—as it should be.
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Francois Nel / Getty Simone Biles’s Critics Don’t Understand This Generation of Athletes
The world’s best gymnast doesn’t need to look invincible.
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Getty; Adam Maida/The Atlantic Gentle Encouragement Wasn’t Going to Be Enough
Amid widespread misinformation and antivaccine propaganda, pro football needed to put more pressure on players.
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Jonathan Bachman / Getty Give Reggie Bush His Heisman Back
The NCAA can never fully atone for the theft of college athletes’ labor. But it should try.
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Aaron Ontiveroz / MediaNews Group / The Denver … Chris Paul Bears the Brunt of Pro Sports’ Vaccination Problem
Leagues are seeing the downside of treating vaccines as simply a matter of personal choice.
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Emilee Chinn / Getty Gymnastics Doesn’t Know What to Do With Simone Biles’s Dominance
Her greatness is a form of resistance.
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USA TODAY Sports Naomi Osaka Is Part of a Larger War Within Sports
The tennis star’s fight with the French Open is a disagreement over who should make the rules—and how much power athletes have to protect themselves.
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Mark J. Terrill / AP Photo Athletes Will Never Be Quiet Again
A year of activism after George Floyd’s murder reframed the role of sports in American public life.
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Getty / The Atlantic Move the All-Star Game Out of Georgia
Major League Baseball can get the attention of conservative politicians who are indifferent to civil rights.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic Conservative Donors Have Their Own Cancel Culture
University of Texas athletes have pushed their school to disavow its past. Wealthy alumni have other ideas.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic America Didn’t Need Sports After All
The public’s emotional connection to big-money athletics has been grossly overestimated.
