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A Disparaging Video Prompts Explosive Fallout Within ESPN

Jul 5, 2021

In comments still rippling through the network, the reporter Rachel Nichols, who is white, said Maria Taylor, who is Black, earned the job to host 2020 N.B.A. finals coverage because ESPN was “feeling pressure” on diversity.