anita hill
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Brett Kavanaugh and America's Insistence on White Male Virtue
Let’s start with the laughter: how it was the thing that Christine Blasey Ford remembered best. During a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, in a marathon session that ran more than three hours, Blasey Ford recounted how Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, then a 17-year-old, sexually assaulted her at a…
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John Legend and Time's Up Publicly Protest the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh
As some of Hollywood’s finest assembled on Monday night to celebrate television’s biggest night, there was a fashion statement you may have missed: the Time’s Up movement, which has been calling for the postponement of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court “until a thorough and complete examination has been completed” regarding sexual assault…
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Anita Hill to Joe Biden: I’m Good Luv, Enjoy
Everyone is talking about Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the impending testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. As Donald Trump’s pick to replace Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court, Kavanaugh has had his confirmation process interrupted by the accusation. Blasey Ford is…
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Clarence Thomas Sexual Harassment Accuser Wants Him Impeached
Angela Wright-Shannon accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in the 1980s, and now, in a scathing op-ed, she’s calling for his impeachment and removal from the bench. Wright-Shannon, a former Charlotte Observer editor, wrote in her HuffPost essay published Monday that she and several other women, including Anita Hill, accused Thomas of…
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Joe Biden Claims He Owes Anita Hill an Apology; Here’s Why I Don’t Believe He’s Sincere
In every movement, there is one person who stands out as the face of said movement. This person may not be the most vocal or the most celebrated, and behind the scenes, and sometimes in front of the scenes, they are often ridiculed, admonished and shunned until history reverses course to prop them up as…
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Time Magazine Names ‘the Silence Breakers’ Its Person of the Year
Time’s Person of the Year isn’t a single person but a movement. On Wednesday, the magazine announced that “the silence breakers”—the victims of sexual harassment and assault who have come forward to tell their stories—had earned the distinction of being its Person of the Year for 2017. Time Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal told the Today show…
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Joe Biden Needs to Offer Anita Hill a Better Apology
Given the severe identity crisis engulfing the Democratic Party, it makes sense that a Joe Biden 2020 run seems plausible. The party’s stubborn refusal to let go of white, working-class voters who voted for Donald Trump strengthens Biden’s candidacy for some party elites who can’t see that its future rests in the hands of women,…
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Anita Hill on the Weinstein Scandal: This Type of Shit Happens Every Day
One of the first faces of sexual harassment in the workplace (you’re welcome, white women), Anita Hill, now a professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis University, has spoken out in light of this week’s unfolding Harvey Weinstein scandal, wherein dozens of women have come forward to say that the 65-year-old former…
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Petition Started to Include Clarence Thomas in National African American Museum
This month marks the 25th anniversary of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ arrival on the nation’s highest court. But the only mention of him that the recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., has is in reference to Anita Hill’s testimony against him regarding sexual harassment during his confirmation…
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Anita Hill Paved the Way for Donald Trump Accusers to Speak Their Truth
This month marks 25 years since Anita F. Hill sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee and testified about sexual harassment by then-Supreme Court hopeful Clarence Thomas. She testified about his commentary regarding her physical appearance and someone leaving a pubic hair on his soda can. It was shocking. Fast-forward to 2016, and here we are…