17 Facts About Marc Lamont Hill

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Marc Lamont Hill was born on December 17,1978 and is an American academic, author, activist, and television personality.

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Marc Lamont Hill is a professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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When he was 14, Marc Lamont Hill met future NBA star Kobe Bryant at a basketball summer camp, and the two became close friends and remained so until Bryant's death.

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From 2005 to 2009, Marc Lamont Hill was a professor of urban education and American studies at Temple University.

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Marc Lamont Hill left Teachers College in 2014 to join the faculty at Morehouse College as Distinguished Professor of African American Studies.

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Marc Lamont Hill worked as a political contributor for Fox News from 2007 until 2009, when he was fired.

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In January 2021, Marc Lamont Hill was named as the host of UpFront on Al Jazeera English, as the permanent replacement for Mehdi Hasan.

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Marc Lamont Hill is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization aiming to educate youth about their legal rights and responsibilities.

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Marc Lamont Hill was named one of America's top 30 black leaders under the age of 30 by Ebony magazine.

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Marc Lamont Hill publicly argued for the release of Genarlow Wilson and Shaquanda Cotton.

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Marc Lamont Hill urged the public to write to District Attorney David McDade to express concerns about his desire to appeal the court's decision to void the sentence of Genarlow Wilson.

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Marc Lamont Hill, represented by his brother, attorney Leonard Marc Lamont Hill, filed a civil lawsuit on October 12,2010, against the City of Philadelphia and four police officers, including DeCoatsworth.

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Marc Lamont Hill expressed support for the Green Party in the 2016 US presidential election.

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In November 2018, Marc Lamont Hill rejected this characterization, saying this was a "call for justice" referring to the existing borders of the Palestinian territories on the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River.

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Furthermore, the trustees said that Marc Lamont Hill's words were criticized as "virulent anti-Semitism" and "hate speech".

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However, as Marc Lamont Hill was not representing the school and that as a "private individual is entitled to the same Constitutional protection of any other citizen, and that he has through subsequent statements expressly rejected anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic violence", the trustees decided not to dismiss nor discipline Marc Lamont Hill.

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Marc Lamont Hill said that he did now believe Farrakhan to be an antisemite and was utterly opposed to Farrakhan's then-recent comparison of Jews to termites.