Tue, November 15, 2022, 6:00 PM
Hosted in partnership with Detroit City Lions and Mumford High School Alumni Association
About this event
Join us to celebrate our fellow Mustang for the release of her new book UpHill!!! We are honored to have an evening with Jemele Hill to benefit our scholarship program in partnership with Detroit City Lions Youth Club at Marygrove College on November 15th.
Each Ticket includes a copy of the Uphill, light refreshments, live music and Q & A session. There will be a book signing on site.
About the book:
An empowering, unabashedly bold memoir by The Atlantic journalist and former ESPN Sports Center co anchor about overcoming a legacy of pain and forging a new path, no matter how uphill life’s battles might be.
In Jemele Hill’s journey Uphill, she shares the whole story of her work, the women of her family, and her complicated relationship with God in an unapologetic, character-rich, and eloquent memoir.
About the Author
Jemele Hill is the Emmy Award–winning former cohost of ESPN’s Sports Center 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 host of Spotify’s Jemele Hill Is Unbothered podcast, the cohost with Cari Champion of Cari & Jemele: Speak.Easy. on CNN +, and 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.
