Ep. 240 Hold the Powers that Be Accountable with Jemele Hill

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

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.

You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website: thestackspodcast.com/2022/11/09/ep-240-jemele-hill

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0:00.0	Do you know what sucks really bad?
0:02.3	Missing out on tickets to the biggest tour of the year.
0:06.8	Not Taylor Swift, not Beyonce, but the live in the stacks tour.
0:13.3	We have only three stops left, so you need to grab your tickets now before you have major
0:20.1	FOMO for the rest of your life.
0:22.7	I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on Sunday, September 24th.
0:28.0	I will be in New York City with KSA layman on Monday, September 25th, and you can find
0:32.9	me for the last stop of the tour on Wednesday, October 18th, with a few special guests which
0:39.3	we will announce real, real soon.
0:42.2	I promise you a night of big laps, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could
0:47.6	possibly imagine.
0:49.8	Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and get them before they're gone.
0:57.5	And I can't wait to see you live in the stacks.
1:10.3	Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.
1:13.6	I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today I am joined by Jamel Hill, writer for the Atlantic
1:19.7	former ESPN host and analyst and the host and creator of the podcast Jamel Hill is unbothered,
1:26.6	which focuses on culture and politics in addition to, of course, sports.
1:30.7	If you don't know her, Jamel is basically the first woman of sports, and she is someone
1:34.8	whose work I have admired from afar for years.
1:38.5	Jamel has a brand new book out, and it's called Up Hill.
1:41.3	It's a powerful memoir about her life of resilience, following cycles of generational
1:45.4	trauma, about her professional setbacks and public scandals, and today we talk about
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