ESPN’s Jemele Hill, who was suspended for two weeks in October 2017 by the cable sports network for her tweets about Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and calling for a boycott of Cowboys advertisers was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday.
The annual award recognizes a black journalist who has amassed a distinguished body of work with extraordinary depth, scope and significance to the people of the African Diaspora according to a press release from the NABJ.
Hill was roundly criticized for tweeting about President Trump, calling him a “white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/other white supremacists.”
She later expressed regret that her tweets had “painted ESPN in an unfair light” but didn’t formally apologize.- READ MORE
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