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Marc Lamont Hill was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 17, 1978. He is an academic, journalist, and host of BET News, as well as a political commentator. He attended Morehouse College his freshman year, and finished at Temple University, graduating with a B. S. in education and Spanish (2000). He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His work in education includes Professor of Urban Education and American studies at Temple University, Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College. His career in journalism includes working for Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, and Court TV. He has worked as a host for Our World with Black Enterprise and HuffPost Live. He is the author of several books, Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies); Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity; The Classroom and The Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America; and his bestseller, Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond.

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