Marc Lamont Hill

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|name = Dr. Marc Lamont Hill
|image = Marc_Lamont_Hill.jpg
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|12|17}}
|birth_place = [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]
|residence = [[Philadelphia]]/[[New York]]
|nationality = [[United States]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Temple University]]
|employer = [[Columbia University]]
|occupation = [[Academic]], commentator, [[activist]], [[television host]], [[author]]
|website = [http://www.marclamonthill.com/ MarcLamontHill.com]
|footnotes =
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'''Dr. Marc Lamont Hill''' (born December 17, 1978) is an American academic, commentator, journalist, author, activist, and television personality. He currently serves as an [[Associate Professor]] at [[Teachers College, Columbia University]]. Hill is also an affiliated faculty member in [[African American Studies]] at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. He is currently the host of the nationally syndicated television show [[Our World with Black Enterprise]].
==Career==
From 2007 to 2009, Hill worked as a political contributor for the [[Fox News Channel]], where he regularly appeared on ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'', ''[[Huckabee]]'', and ''[[Hannity]]''.<ref name="Offical website">{{cite web|title='Marc Lamont Hill official website'|url=http://www.marclamonthill.com/about|accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> Prior to Fox, Hill was a regular commentator on [[CNN]] and [[MSNBC]], as well as [[Court TV]], where he was a weekly contributor to the ''[[Star Jones (TV series)|Star Jones]]'' talk show. In August 2010, he replaced Ed Gordon as host of the syndicated television show ''[[Our World with Black Enterprise]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title='Marc Lamont Hill: Fox News Contributor to host syndicated show'|url=http://www.bvbuzz.com/2010/08/26/marc-lamont-hill-our-world-black-enterprise/|accessdate=31 August}}</ref>

As of 2012, Hill is currently a host for [[HuffPost Live]], for which he is one of 10 inaugural hosts.

===Activism===
Hill is a longtime [[social justice]] [[activist]] and [[organizer]]. He is a founding board member of My5th, a [[non-profit organization]] aiming to educate underprivileged youth about their legal rights and responsibilities.<ref name="Offical website"/><ref>{{cite web|title='My5th website'|url=http://www.my5th.org/about.php|accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> 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 continues to organize and teach adult literacy courses for high school dropouts in [[Philadelphia]] and [[Camden, New Jersey|Camden]]. Dr. Hill also works closely with the [[ACLU]] Drug Reform Project, focusing on drug informant policy.<ref name="Offical website"/>

In addition to his political work, Dr. Hill continues to work directly with [[African American]] and [[Latino]] youth. Hill publicly argued for the release of [[Genarlow Wilson]] and [[Shaquanda Cotton]]. In the Cotton case, Hill organized a mass internet letter writing campaign that helped to place a spotlight on the case and secure her early release.<ref>{{cite web|title='More Thoughts on Shaquanda Cotton, Official Marc L. Hill website'|url=http://www.marclamonthill.com/more-thoughts-on-shaquanda-cotton-2563|accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> Hill urged the public to write to [[District Attorney]] David McDade to express their concerns about his desire to appeal the court's decision to void the sentence of [[Genarlow Wilson]], stating that in doing so, McDade was "ignoring the will of the people, the judge, and any semblance of justice."<ref>{{cite web|title='Write for Genarlow Wilson!', Official Marc L. Hill website'|url=http://www.marclamonthill.com/genarlow-wilson-update-5-3231|accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref>

Dr. Hill was named one of America's top 30 black leaders under 30 years old by ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'' Magazine.<ref>{{cite web|title='Marc Lamont Hill to speak as part of Black History Month!'|url=http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/press_releases/2009-2010/marc_lamont_hill_10|accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref>

He is a life member of [[Kappa Alpha Psi]] fraternity.

==Academic Background==
Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, and education. He is particularly interested in locating various sites of possibility for political resistance, identity work, and knowledge production outside of formal schooling contexts. Particular sites of inquiry include prisons, black bookstores, and youth cultural production.

In the fall of 2009, Dr. Hill joined the faculty of Columbia University as Associate Professor of Education.<ref name="Offical website"/> From 2005-2009, he was [[Assistant Professor]] of Urban Education and American Studies at [[Temple University]]. A scholar in the field of educational anthropology and literacy studies, Hill's research focuses on political education, counter-public literacies, and youth culture. In 2009, he published the award-winning book, ''Beats, Rhymes and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity''.

In 2012, he gave the commencement speech at [[Sonoma State University]].

==Books==
*{{cite book|author=Hill, Marc Lamont|year=2009|title=Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity|publisher=Teachers College Press|isbn=0-8077-4960-5}}
*{{cite book|author=Hill, Marc Lamont|year=2007|title=Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)|publisher=Peter Lang Publishing|isbn=0-8204-8656-6}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.temple.edu/american_studies/Faculty/MarcLamontHill.htm Temple University Faculty page]
*[http://www.marclamonthill.com/ Official website]
*{{Twitter|marclamonthill}}
*[http://blogs.theroot.com/blogs/downfromthetower/ Down from the Tower] - blog at [[The Root (magazine)|The Root]]
*[http://theloop21.com/users/marc-lamont-hill Contributor at TheLoop21.com ]

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