Before We Give 2017 The Middle Finger, Part 2
Code Switch3 Jan 2018

Before We Give 2017 The Middle Finger, Part 2

This week, Gene Demby talks with ESPN's Jemele Hill. The SportsCenter anchor discusses becoming a lightning rod in the culture wars and the flimsy partition between politics and sports. And we'll look ahead to a year of looking back: the 50th anniversaries of the tumultuous events of 1968.

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