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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 15 april 2019

Jemele Hill still speaking her mind, this time on podcast

By DAVID BAUDER the American flag would
Associated Press not play on his team.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jemele Hill officially left ESPN in Sep-
Hill has moved on, but not tember 2018. A year and a
from speaking her mind. half after the incident, Hill
The former ESPN host, best said she had no qualms
known to the non-sports over taking on the presi-
world for tweets about dent. “I didn’t like the fact
President Donald Trump that it caused damage to
that provoked the White people I care about and
House to unsuccessfully to relationships that I built,
seek her firing, launches a but in terms of what I said,
weekly podcast Monday I don’t regret it,” she said.
on Spotify. On the show, “In my mind, I’ve only been
“Jemele Hill is Unbothered,” proven right so it’s hard for
she’ll conduct interviews me to regret it knowing
and give commentary on that I’m on the right side
sports, politics and culture. of history.” Hill’s eventual
Coupled with a regular exit from ESPN was more
gig writing for The Atlan- amicable than these things
tic magazine and her en- normally are. She explored
gagement in December some of these feelings in an
to writer Ian Wallace, the Atlantic column about re-
43-year-old Hill does seems connecting with John Skip-
unbothered. Happy, even. per, the former ESPN boss
Some of her recent Atlantic who left his job because of
pieces seem to give a road This Feb. 3, 2017 file photo shows Jemele Hill at ESPN: The Party 2017 in Houston, Texas. substance abuse issues. “I
map for her podcast. She’s Associated Press left ESPN a better journalist
written about how NFL to anyone who follows the have been entwined. It’s Trump unfolded in Septem- than when I started there,”
players need to look out for social media feed of this really not all that big of a ber 2017. She called him a Hill wrote. “I’m rooting for
their own interests because former sportswriter who leap.” white supremacist and “the his success because he so
their teams probably won’t, dreamed of one day writ- Hill became a newspaper most ignorant, offensive heavily invested in mine.”
a “force field” erected by ing for Sports Illustrated. sports columnist at 28 and president of my lifetime.” Her hiring at Spotify dove-
the black community that “The beauty of sports is when first hired at ESPN, it ESPN distanced itself from tails with that company’s
protected singer R. Kelly that it always provided a was as a writer, not a tele- her comments and the ambition to be the world’s
from consequences relat- platform to talk about all vision host. Hill joined ESPN controversy that ensued, leading audio platform for
ed to his behavior and how of these other things,” she in 2006 from the Orlando but didn’t discipline her. A both podcasts and music,
— after watching Barack said. “We’ve always made Sentinel. She eventually month later, she was sus- said Courtney Holt, head
and Michelle Obama in- the mistake of making it moved in front of the cam- pended for violating social of Spotify Studios. The sci-
teract with Trump at the seem like the rest of the uni- eras, although her highest- media policy for tweeting ence podcast Dope Labs
funeral for former President verse is happening in one profile assignment, the 6 that fans should effectively and another by comic
George H.W. Bush — she place and sports is hap- p.m. “SportsCenter” with boycott the advertisers of Amy Schumer are among
wished they wouldn’t al- pening over here, when Michael Smith, didn’t quite the Dallas Cowboys af- the 20 original podcasts
ways “go high.” often sports, politics, social click with viewers. ter owner Jerry Jones said Spotify is making now or
Her interests are no surprise media and entertainment Her Twitter battle with players who disrespected launching.q

Tulsa museum to feature musician Bob Dylan’s paintings

Associated Press Dylan’s multifaceted ar- more context to Dylan’s
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa tistic capabilities, said portraits, Chaiken said.
museum will soon open a Michael Chaiken, the ar- “Here we’re able to high-
new Bob Dylan exhibit that chive’s curator. light the fact that there is
will showcase 12 pastel por- “He’s best known for his mu- a precedent for those por-
traits the musician painted. sic, but Dylan is also a writer traits,” he said. “Bob Dylan
The Gilcrease Museum will of prose, a filmmaker, and has been painting and
display “Bob Dylan: Face someone who has been in- drawing since at least the
Value and Beyond” from volved in the visual arts for 1960s, although it’s only
May 10 to Sept. 15, the Tul- decades,” Chaiken said. been in recent years that
sa World reported. “This show is an opportunity he’s put his work on display.
The exhibit is filled with to explore all those differ- So we have a lot of mate-
pieces from the Bob Dylan ent avenues of Dylan’s cre- rial to illustrate that, includ-
Archives, which has more ativity.” ing drawings and sketch-
than 100,000 items from his The portraits were first books that have never
60-year career. It’s the first shown in London in 2013. been shown before.”
major show from the ar- The only time they were on The exhibit will also include
chives since it was acquired display in the U.S. was dur- handwritten song lyrics,
by the George Kaiser Fam- ing a two-month exhibit in a black leather jacket,
ily Foundation and the Uni- In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 photo, a piece from Bob Dylan's Ohio in 2016. an electric guitar and
versity of Tulsa in 2016. first concert in New York is shown in Tulsa, Okla. Unlike previous displays, the screen tests filmed by Andy
The paintings highlight Associated Press Gilcrease exhibit will give Warhol.q