Session 374: Black Women In Sports Media
Therapy for Black Girls
iHeartPodcasts and Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Athletes like Angel Reese & Sha’Carri Richardson have so brilliantly led women’s sports into the national spotlight, but with this has come lots of negative attention and straight-up negligent media coverage of these athletes and their sports. I wanted to hear from Black Women Sports journalists both in front of and behind the camera to explore what’s needed to correct some of these biased narratives.
Joining me for this Black women in sports media roundtable are supervising producer Jasmine Ellis, and Emmy-award winning journalist Jemele Hill. Jasmine has worked on shows such as Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe's "A Touch More,” Speak.Easy for CNN+, and ESPNS’s SC6. And Jemele, making her return to the TBG Podcast, is a contributing writer for The Atlantic where she covers the intersection between sports, race, politics, gender and culture. During our conversation, we discussed the barriers that exist for Black women to enter the sports media space, the importance of cultural competency when covering women’s sports, and why we can’t just “stick to sports” when talking about female athletes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, a weekly conversation about |
| 0:15.7 | mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to |
| 0:21.0 | become the best possible versions of ourselves. I'm your host, Dr Joy Hardin |
| 0:26.1 | Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information or to find a therapist in your area, |
| 0:34.4 | visit our website at therapy for black girls.com. |
| 0:38.2 | While I hope you love listening to and learning from the podcast, it is not meant to be a substitute for a |
| 0:45.6 | relationship with a licensed mental health professional. Hey y'all, |
| 0:55.0 | all, thanks so much for joining me for Session 374 of the Therapy for Black |
| 1:00.8 | Girls Podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | We'll get right into our conversation |
| 1:04.0 | after word from our sponsors. |
| 1:05.7 | Hey everyone, I'm Jasmine Ellis, and I'm Jemelle Hill. |
| 1:09.2 | And we're on the Therapy for Black Girls Podcasts. |
| 1:12.6 | We're in session today unpacking our careers |
| 1:15.9 | as black women's sports into the |
| 1:32.4 | national spotlight. |
| 1:34.0 | But with this has come lots of negative attention |
| 1:36.6 | and straight up negligent media coverage of these athletes |
| 1:39.6 | and their sports. |
| 1:41.2 | I wanted to hear from black women's Sports Journalists both in front of and behind the camera to explore what's needed to correct some of these biased narratives. |
| 1:50.0 | Joining me today for this Black Women in Sports Media Roundtable are supervising producer Jasmine Ellis |
| 1:56.2 | and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jamel Hill. |
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