Marc Lamont Hill is an American academic, journalist, author, activist, and television personality.
Education
Hill graduated from Carver High School, a public school in Philadelphia, followed by Morehouse College, a private liberal arts college, but says he spent his time "hanging out and getting in trouble", and dropped out of Morehouse when he was a freshman. He finished his undergraduate studies at Temple University, where he received his Bachelor of Surgery in education and Spanish in 2000, and he later earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
From 2005 to 2009, Hill was an assistant professor of urban education and American studies at Temple University. In the fall of 2009, Hill joined the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University as an associate professor of education.
He left Teachers College in 2014 to join the faculty at Morehouse College as Distinguished Professor of African American Studies.
However, as of the summer of 2015 he was still not listed on the African American Studies program faculty listing.
Career
He is Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the original host of the television show Our World with Black Enterprise and hosts the online Internet-based HuffPost Live. He is also a Black Entertainment Television News correspondent and a Cable News Network political commentator.
Hill worked as a political contributor for the Fox News Channel from 2007 to 2009, when he was fired.
During this time, he appeared on The O"Reilly Factor, Huckabee, and Hannity. Prior to Fox, Hill was a commentator on Cable News Network and Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, as well as Court television, where he was a weekly contributor to the Star Jones talk show.
In August 2010, he replaced Editor Gordon as host of the syndicated television show Our World with Black Enterprise. In May 2012, he joined Huffington Post as a host of HuffPost Live.
Activism Hill is a social justice activist and organizer.
In 2001, he started a literacy project that uses hip-hop culture to increase school engagement and reading skills among high school students. He also organizes and teaches adult literacy courses for high school dropouts in Philadelphia and Camden. Hill also works with the American Civil Liberties Union Drug Reform Project, focusing on drug informant policy.
Hill was named one of America"s top 30 black leaders under 30 years old by Ebony magazine.
In addition, Hill works with African-American and Latino youth. Hill publicly argued for the release of Genarlow Wilson and Shaquanda Cotton.
In the Cotton case, Hill organized an internet letter writing campaign. 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.
Commenting on the air on Cable News Network, as well as on Twitter, Hill asserted that “Every 28 hours, an unarmed black person is killed by police.” The claim went viral after police killed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New New York” In 2014, Politifact said his statement was false.
Hill later corrected his statement, after Politifact had indicated that his statement was not correct.”.
Membership
He is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization aiming to educate youth about their legal rights and responsibilities.