“Although study after study shows black men are more likely to be victims of crime, rarely do they receive victim treatment. When black athletes are crime victims, the undertone seems to be they somehow were at fault.”

American sports journalist

Jemele Hill is an American sports journalist known for her work in print and television. She has written for the Raleigh News & Observer, the Detroit Free Press, and the Orlando Sentinel, and she joined ESPN in 2006. At ESPN, Hill held several roles before becoming host of ESPN2's Numbers Never Lie in 2013. The show later became His & Hers, which she co-hosted with Michael Smith, and the two later led SC6, the 6 p.m. ET edition of SportsCenter, from 2017 to 2018.