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This is Our Body Politics. I'm guest host Natasha Alford, senior correspondent at the

griot, sitting in for Farai Chodea. It's been more than 50 years since the passing of

Title IX, the federal law that protects students from sex-based

discrimination, and so much has changed for the better. But there's still a lot of room for progress

in women's sports, especially when it comes to how black women and transgender athletes are

criticized by the media. How do we keep making progress for these athletes at the college and professional

level and in the way they're covered in the press? We turn first to Jamel Hill, an Emmy Award

winning journalist who covers sports at the intersection of race, gender, and politics. She's reported

from the Olympics and the NBA playoffs and was an ESPN columnist.

Jamel was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalist in 2018

for her outstanding contribution to sports journalism.

And she currently hosts the two-time NAACP Image Award-winning podcast, Jamel Hill, is Unbothered. Welcome back to the show,

Jamel. Thanks for having me. I appreciate you. Of course. It's great to have you. So, you know,

the last time you were on the show, you talked about your book, uphill, a memoir, which you know,

I love, it was so dynamic, it was inspiring. But a lot has happened since.

So just catch us up. What have you been working on recently? Well, you know, I'm pretty knee-deep in

this Colin Kaepernick documentary that I'm executive producing that's directed by Spike Lee.

So doing that and continuing the podcast. And I'm also still writing for The Atlantic.

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