Anita Hill

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/17/2019
  

  How History Changed Anita Hill

  Professor Hill spoke with Jessica Bennett, gender editor at The New York Times and called for a greater recognition of gender-based violence in the political sphere, and stronger leadership on the issue.

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  9-3-18
  

  Republican Sen. Ben Sasse (a historian) drops a bombshell on the debate over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court

  "I urged the president to nominate a different individual," Sasse said. "I urged the president to nominate a woman."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-2-18
  

  How the FBI’s flawed investigation of Clarence Thomas became a model for Kavanaugh’s

  And why it shouldn't.  For one thing, the FBI never talked to — or even knew to look for — four potential witnesses who had knowledge of Anita Hill’s complaints about Thomas.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-25-18
  

  What happens when women talk to Congress about sex

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  They’re repeatedly ignored.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-24-18
  

  Anita Hill's Testimony Didn't Stop a Supreme Court Confirmation…

  But It Did Affect Election Results

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-20-18
  

  The scathing ad 1,600 black women bought to oppose Clarence Thomas

  On Nov. 17, 1991, more than 1,600 African American women, outraged by the Senate’s mistreatment of Anita Hill, took out an ad in the New York Times with the headline: “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-18-18
  

  No women served on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991

  The ugly Anita Hill hearings changed that.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-17-18
  

  Echoes of Anita Hill, but in a Different Era for Women

  Now it is Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh who faces a hearing to address explosive accusations by Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  2-18-18
  

  Writer Makes the Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas

  by Jill Abramson

  With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it’s time to talk seriously about impeachment, argues Jill Abramson.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-14-17
  

  Re-watching Joe Biden’s disastrous Anita Hill hearing: A sexual harassment inquisition

  What went wrong.