Thursday, September 14, 2017

"ESPN tried to kick Jemele Hill off the air and replace her with another black host"

TP:
ESPN originally tried to keep Hill off the air on Wednesday evening, but Smith refused to do the show without her, the sources said. Both sources also said that producers reached out to two other black ESPN hosts, Michael Eaves and Elle Duncan, to ask them to serve as fill-ins for the show — but Eaves and Duncan did not agree to take the place of Hill and Smith, either.

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ESPN refutes this account.