ESPN anchor Sage Steele claims that her colleagues boxed her out of a network special on race and social justice claiming she isn’t Black enough.
Steele did not appear on “Time for Change: We Won’t Be Defeated,” a June 24 special billed as “exploring Black athletes’ experiences with injustice” in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death while in custody of the Minneapolis police.
SportsCenter anchors Elle Duncan, Michael Eaves and Jay Harris hosted the special alongside college football reporter and NBA studio host host Maria Taylor.
Not an ‘authentic voice for the Black community’
A source told The Wall Street Journal’s Joe Flint that Steele told management she wasn’t invited to participate “because she wasn’t considered by certain Black colleagues to be an authentic voice for the Black community.