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Marc Lamont Hill

What I Do

Marc Lamont Hill is Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University and host of Our World With Black Enterprise, which airs Sundays at 6 a.m. on TV-One. He is an editor-at-large for the Daily News and his column will appear every other week.

Black church needs to accept gay marriage

DEAR Black Preachers: I’ve been frustrated with you for years. No, not all of you. But enough to make this worth writing. For the past few decades, you’ve moved in the wrong direction. Too many of you have become puppets of power. Too many of you have allowed yourselves to become agents of grotesque capitalism. Instead of honoring the spirit of love, truth and justice, you’ve become increasingly obsessed with health and wealth.

Marc Lamont Hill | Columnist 

Mentoring can make summertime meaningful

W ITH SCHOOLS letting out and the weather heating up, Friday marks the unofficial start of summer in Philadelphia. While summer marks the beginning of many great things, it's also a time when our city's youth have a lot of free time on their hands. One of the consequences is an annual rise in crime and violence. Although common in most cities, it's particularly true in Philadelphia, where far too many of our children become vulnerable to negative forces during breaks from school. For this reason, it's extremely important that we use the summer to start mentoring our youth.

Marc Lamont Hill | Columnist 

Private interests vs. school reform: It’s time to fight

LAST WEEK, the Philadelphia School District announced plans to completely overhaul itself and close more than 40 public schools next year. By closing the schools, for what it describes as considerable financial, academic, and safety concerns, the district claims that it will be able to restructure in ways that are more effective and efficient. While not surprising, given our city’s consistent bungling of education reform over the past two decades, this move was nonetheless disturbing for many reasons.

Marc Lamont Hill | Columnist 

20 years for fighting off abusive husband

A GROUP OF activists gathered at 52nd and Market streets Tuesday to protest the arrest of Marissa Alexander, a Florida woman convicted for firing her gun during a confrontation with her estranged husband in which she feared for her life. Nine days after the birth of their child, the two became involved in a confrontation and Alexander fired a warning shot into the wall to scare her husband, who has a long and documented history of domestic abuse.

Marc Lamont Hill | Columnist