Marc Lamont Hill is an American academic, author, activist, and television personality. He serves as a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.

Hill is the host of "UpFront" on Al Jazeera English, "VH1 Live!" on VH1, and "Basketball Wives" reunion shows. He is also a BET News correspondent. Previously, he was the first host of the syndicated television show "Our World with Black Enterprise", the host of "HuffPost Live", and a political commentator for CNN and Fox News.

In November 2018, Hill was released from his position at CNN after receiving criticism for remarks made before the United Nations on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Dr. Hill is recognized as one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. He has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Hill is a Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College and has held positions at Columbia University and Temple University. Since his youth in Philadelphia, Dr. Hill has been a social justice activist and organizer. He is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization devoted to educating youth about their legal rights.