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Anita Hill reflects on what's changed since her testimony against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and what work surrounding sexual harassment in the workplace remains unfinished.
America had yet to really understand sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in front of an all-male Senate panel in October 1991. Now, in a new book, Hill urges ...
In the 1996 television film, Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story, Anita Hill's testimony is being watched at the bar by main character Kerry Ellison. The film is a true story about a landmark sexual harassment case. Anita Hill is mentioned in The X-Files episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", which aired November 17, 1996. [87] [88]
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President George H. W. Bush nominated him to succeed Thurgood Marshall.
Toward the end of the confirmation process, sexual harassment allegations against Thomas by Anita Hill, a law professor who had previously worked under Thomas at the United States Department of Education and then at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were leaked to the media from a confidential FBI report. The allegations led to ...
Anita Hill created a lasting image and legacy when she testified against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and accused him The post Anita Hill believes society has come far in tackling ...
Anita: Speaking Truth to Power is a 2013 American documentary film, written, directed, and produced by Freida Mock. It follows Anita Hill , a lawyer who testified against Clarence Thomas 's Supreme Court nomination , exposing the problem of sexual harassment around the world.
And the first episode is about the Anita Hill hearings. It’s true that they woke America up to the sleeping giant of sexual harassment. Just two years after Hill came forward to accuse Clarence Thomas of telling her about his porn habits at work, harassment cases had nearly doubled.