Jemele Hill

Biography

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 t...