Renowned sports journalist Jemele Hill joins the show to discuss her powerful new book Uphill: A Memoir. We talk about how she organized and thought about telling her story, how she cultivated he sources as a journalist. Jemele also reveals how she navigates the challenging relationship between her own identity as a Black woman and the world of sports.
The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. We will discuss the book on November 30th with Mariame Kaba.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- Uphill by Jemele Hill
- Jemele Hill is Unbothered (Spotify)
- Michael Smith
- The Perfect Day to Boss Up by Rick Ross
- Golden State Warriors
- Boston Celtics
- “I Saw My Mother Falling Apart” – Journalist Jemele Hill + Her Mom” (Red Table Talk)
- OJ Simpson murder trial
- Colin Kaepernick
- Sally Jenkins
- Michael Wilbon
- Tony Kornheiser
- Los Angeles Lakers
- Los Angeles Times
- Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
- Keyon Dooling
- The Young and the Restless (CBS)
- Tom Izzo
- Marshall’s
- Sage Steele
- Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
- The Bachelor (ABC)
- This is Us (NBC)
- His & Hers podcast (ESPN Radio)
- “LeBron: I’m going back to the Cavs” (ESPN.com)
- “James picks Heat; Cavs owner erupts” (ESPN.com)
- “We Got Next! The History of the WNBA” (Womenshistory.org)
- “Michael Jordan’s Return to the NBA Was Greeted Like the Second Coming” (Phil Taylor, Sports Illustrated)
- “The Fall of Aaron Hernandez” (Bill Pennington, New York Times)
- “The day Muhammad Ali got knocked out by the draft board” (Rhiannon Walker, Andscape)
- Finding Me by Viola Davis
- Finding Me by Viola Davis (audiobook)
- Uphill by Jemele Hill (audiobook)
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
- “Ep. 219 Genre Redlining with Leila Mottley” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 137 Specificity in Storytelling with Yaa Gyasi” (The Stacks)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (audiobook)
- Ruby Dee
- Jemele Hill at The Atlantic
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