Sexual Assalt

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-9-18
  

  The Catholic Church’s grim history of ignoring priestly pedophilia – and silencing would-be whistleblowers

  by Brian Clites

  While the problem of priestly pedophilia might be centuries old, the modern paper trail began only after World War II.

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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.