Jemele Hill  Jemele Juanita Hill (; born 1975) is an American sports journalist. She currently writes for "The Atlantic". She worked nearly 12 years for sports conglomerate ESPN. She wrote a column for ESPN.com's Page 2 and formerly hosted ESPN's "His and Hers". In June 2013, she succeeded Jalen Rose on ESPN2's "Numbers Never Lie". In February 2017, Hill and Michael Smith became co-hosts of "SC6", the 6 p.m. (ET) edition of ESPN's flagship "SportsCenter". Hill remained in that role until February 2018, when she moved to ESPN's website "The Undefeated". She joined "The Atlantic" in October 2018. Hill was born in Detroit on December 21, 1975. She and her mother moved to Houston in 1980, then later back to Detroit. Hill graduated from Mumford High School in 1993, then from Michigan State University in 1997. Hill began her career as general assignment sports writer for the "Raleigh News & Observer". From 1999 to 2005, she served as a sports writer with the "Detroit Free Press", mainly covering Michigan State football and basketball. While at the "Free Press", she also covered the 2004 Summer Olympics and the NBA Playoffs. Hill worked as a columnist for the "Orlando Sentinel" from 2005 to 2006. Hill joined ESPN in November 2006 as a national columnist on ESPN.com. Hill made regular appearances on television, including "SportsCenter" and several ESPN programs, including "ESPN First Take", "Outside the Lines" and "The Sports Reporters". During the 2012 college football season, she worked on Friday nights as a sideline reporter with Carter Blackburn and Rod Gilmore. During the 2008 NBA Playoffs, Hill was suspended from her post after referencing Adolf Hitler in an article about the Boston Celtics and the Detroit Pistons. In an editorial describing why she could not support the Celtics, Hill wrote: "Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It's like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan." The comments generated a negative response and that portion of the editorial was taken out shortly after the column was published. Hill, a Pistons fan, wrote that: "...to some degree it was about race. Detroit is 80 percent black, and as my colleague J.A. Adande stated in a fantastic piece on the Celtics earlier this season, the mostly white Celtics teams of the past had a tough time being accepted by black audiences. Boston was viewed by black as a racially intolerant city."