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Posted on Fri, Jul. 20, 2007
Marc Lamont Hill
Age: 28
Occupation: Professor/TV political analyst.
Children: One.
Neighborhood: Germantown
Education: Earned his PhD with distinction from University of Pennsylvania in 2005.
Habla Espanol y mas: Fluent both in Spanish and Arabic.
Claim to fame: Being known as a hip-hop intellectual; also serves as an analyst on Fox News as well as CNN and other news outlets
Passions: Social activism. In addition to serving as a consultant to the American Civil Liberties Union, he’s also on the board of directors for my5th.org, an organization founded following the conviction and imprisonment of Genarlow Wilson. “The girl was 15. He was 17. No one knew that it was a felony in Georgia for two teenagers to have oral sex...We’re going to get him home.”
Philly dating scene: “It’s just tired. You see the same people, the same faces everywhere you go. Everbody’s about to become a model.”
What he wants in a woman: “They ain’t got to have a PhD. A lot of women I meet don’t have anything except kids. A lot of times, they don’t bring a lot to the table. But they have the expectation that you’re supposed to be all over them.”
Renaissance guy: Enjoys playing the drums and the saxophone.
Home is: A five-bedroom house he bought two years ago. “I bought the crib hoping I wouldn’t be in it by myself forever.”
Email: mlh@marclamonthill.com
Clothing provided by: jacket by Distante; T-shirt and jeans, South Moon Under
Jenice Armstrong, Daily News columnist