Jemele Hill and ESPN will part ways, according to a report from ESPN source James Miller.

Miller, who wrote ESPN novel These guys have all the fun detailing the culture at the network, has built a career around being an insider at the entertainment conglomerate. And he tweeted Saturday that “Coming 9/1 an amicable departure / buyout for @jemelehill from @espn.”

“Been a long time coming,” Miller concluded.

Hill’s star rose with ESPN for a long time, perhaps culminating with her move to The Six — the coveted SportsCenter time slot — with longtime co-host and friend Michael Smith. But the show didn’t take off, and Hill was suspended for Twitter comments about U.S. President Donald Trump, wherein she called him a white supremacist.

Even after returning to the show following the suspension, it didn’t seem like a long-lasting partnership, and Hill told then-Sports Illustrated writer Richard Deitsch in January that she would be leaving SC6 to write for The Undefeated and work on other projects.

“I am not leaving ESPN (some of y’all need to re-read that sentence too,” Hill tweeted at the time. I’m going to work for our vertical, The Undefeated. I chose to work with The Undefeated because I respect their passion, creativity and storytelling. I have a lot of friends and people I’ve admired there for a long time. I’m honored to now be on their team.

“I addition to The Undefeated, I will be contributing to a myriad of ESPN shows,” Hill continued. “There are also some things I’ll be involved in that I can’t quite announce today. But let’s just say it will make this next phase of my career that much more exhilarating.”

A graduate of Michigan State, Hill spent time at the Raleigh News & Observer, Detroit Free Press and Orlando Sentinel before starting her career with ESPN as a national columnist in 2006.

She appeared on several ESPN programs as part of that gif, including SportsCenter, First Take, Outside the Lines and The Sports Reporters. That led to a podcast with Smith in 2011, His & Hers, which helped them start a show Numbers Never Lie two years later. Their success in those two formats led to their call-up to SportsCenter as evening anchors.

Hill was named 2018 journalist of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

It will be fascinating to see where Hill goes from here. Obviously, her background covering sports — as a columnist, beat reporter, features writer and on television as both analyst and anchor — is extensive, but her tweets have led some to question whether her end spot might have more of an activist or political lean. In addition to her suspension, Hill has actively discussed Cowboys owner Jerry Jones requiring his players to stand for the national anthem and the Larry Nassar trials at Michigan State, along with seemingly everything between.