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Jemele Hill

Jemele Hill

Born: 1975-12-21 • Detroit, Michigan, USA

Jemele Juanita Hill (/dʒəˈmɛl/ jə-MEL; born December 21, 1975) is an American sports journalist, TV personality, and author. She worked for the Raleigh News & Observer, the Detroit Free Press, and the Orlando Sentinel. She joined ESPN in 2006 and worked in various roles until 2013, when she succeeded Jalen Rose as host of ESPN2's Numbers Never Lie. The show was rebranded to His & Hers which she co-hosted with Michael Smith. Hill and Smith co-hosted SC6, the 6 p.m. (ET) edition of ESPN's flagship SportsCenter from 2017 to 2018.

In 2017, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding News Special for the ABC News Special The President and The People. In she left her role as co-host of SC6 and joined the ESPN website, The Undefeated. She left ESPN shortly afterward to work as a contributing writer for The Atlantic. From August 2020 to February 2021, she co-hosted Vice's Cari & Jemele (Won't) Stick to Sports alongside Cari Champion.

She is the co-founder of the film and production company Lodge Freeway Media and published her autobiography Uphill: A Memoir in 2022.

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Filmography
Untold: The Fall of Favre poster
Untold: The Fall of Favre
2025 • Self - Sports Journalist
Hoops, Hopes & Dreams poster
Hoops, Hopes & Dreams
2025
Power of the Dream poster
Power of the Dream
2024 • Self
Memes & Nightmares poster
Memes & Nightmares
2024 • Self
Bye Bye Barry poster
Bye Bye Barry
2023 • Self
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports poster
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
2023 • Self
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL poster
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022 • Self - Sports Journalist (archive footage)
National Champions poster
National Champions
2021 • Jemele Hill
With Drawn Arms poster
With Drawn Arms
2020 • Self
One Man and His Shoes poster
One Man and His Shoes
2020 • Self