Uphill

Henry Holt Paperbacks
Paperback
256 pages • $18.99
ISBN: 9781250624369

A Memoir

Jemele Hill

“With a skilled hand, Hill captures the nuances of workplace discrimination and its toll while also providing a guide for others—especially women of color—to persevere.”

—Rajpreet Heir, The New York Times

When Jemele Hill called President Trump a “white supremacist,” the world came crashing down on her. But she didn’t buckle. Growing up in Detroit, Hill had faced tougher adversaries than a tweeting president. Born to a teen mother and a heroin-addicted father, Hill had the kind of childhood that seemed to destine her for inheriting her mother’s and grandmother’s pain. Yet within herself Hill found the steel will to break her family’s cycle of intergenerational trauma. She escaped by writing. Once Hill started to speak her mind with truth and conviction, she began rising—and never stopped, becoming one of America’s most recognizable, trusted journalists. In this unapologetic, eloquent, and empowering memoir, Jemele Hill finally shares her whole journey Uphill.

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Jemele Hill is the Emmy Award–winning former cohost of ESPN’s SportsCenter and 2018 NABJ Journalist of the Year. Hill is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, where she covers the intersection of sports, race, politics, and culture. She is also the producer of a Disney/ESPN documentary with Colin Kaepernick. She grew up in Detroit, graduated from Michigan State University, and now lives in Los Angeles.