Before I Die, I … want to see salary parity for genders. It is unfathonable that in 2020, women are still paid 80% compared to men for similiar jobs!
I want to See A Woman Elected As President
October 10, 2020 by
Before I Die, I… I want to See A Woman Elected As President of our nation!!!
Christine Blasey Ford makes rare public remarks, a year after Kavanaugh ordeal
November 18, 2019 by
Christine Blasey Ford, who accused supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, made a rare public appearance on Sunday night.
“When I came forward last September,” she said, accepting an award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California in Beverly Hills, “I did not feel courageous. I was simply doing my duty as a citizen.”
“I understood that not everyone would welcome my information, and I was prepared for a variety of outcomes, including being dismissed.” Read more>>
28th Annual ‘I Believe Anita Hill’ event draws hundreds
October 15, 2019 by
Women from across the state gathered at the longest running women’s networking event in the u-s.
The 28th annual ‘I Believe Anita Hill Celebration’ drew hundreds of influential women to the Bull Street district Tuesday night.
This years event centered on moving forward, not back, pushing for pay equality and the fight against sexual harassment and sexual assault as Anita Hill did. Read more>>>
Anita Hill is owed an apology and the line forms to the Right
October 7, 2019 by
The enormous marble-walled Senate Caucus Room buzzed with activity amid the rush of a phalanx of Washington DC reporters and political journalists. Eager photographers jockeyed for space and positioned their cameras for the key shot of the witness at the green-clothed rectangular table. The entire room had been literally humming with anticipation until the chairman’s gavel sounded loudly and the witness rose from her seat to be sworn in. Beneath the glare of powerful klieg lights, and with the entire nation watching on television, a slender, attractive young African American woman faced the chairman and raised her right hand and swore to tell the truth. Impeccably coiffed and groomed and wearing a modest, crisp, teal-blue suit with parallel rows of golden buttons, she simultaneously and unwittingly took the oath — and her unique place in history. Read more >>>
Anita Hill On 2020 Election: We Don‘t Need ‘To Take The Lesser Of Two Evils‘
September 12, 2019 by
Anita Hill has never really been one for compromise.
The lawyer‘s decision not to do so first propelled her into public life nearly three decades ago, with sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas in his 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings. And she doesn‘t intend to begin compromising now.
“You have to understand that what we need is not just to take the lesser of two evils,” Hill told NPR on Tuesday, an hour before she took the stage to accept her at the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala in New York City.
These days, Hill and heads up the . But those Senate Judiciary Committee hearings have never quite disappeared in her rearview mirror since Thomas — who has long denied the allegations — was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Now, the hearings are back in the news because the senator who led them, Joe Biden, recently tossed his hat — and, nearly in the same breath, expressed his regret for how Hill was treated in 1991.
Source: Easton Caller
Harassment, Accountability, and the Erosion of Judicial Legitimacy
August 15, 2019 by
The impact of sexual harassment in the judiciary
In October 1991, Anita Hill testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was sexually harassed by now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, her superior during her time at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. After three grueling days of nationally televised hearings during which the all-male Judiciary Committee tore apart Hill’s character, Justice Thomas was narrowly confirmed to the Supreme Court. Twenty-seven years later, history seemed to be repeating itself when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was sexually assaulted by now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Despite the enormous controversy associated with its decision, the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh by a razor-thin majority.
Source: American Progress
The Destructive Politics of White Amnesia
August 6, 2019 by
Joe Biden set the stage for Donald Trump’s racial scapegoating. Why can’t he admit that he was wrong?
Biden has yet to accept any genuine responsibility for how he helped preside over a process that depicted women—African American women—as conniving bottom-feeders. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, Biden actively enabled the humiliation and stigmatization of Anita Hill in that terrible spectacle of patriarchal impunity. He failed to call the multiple existing witnesses who could corroborate Hill’s testimony, while granting future Justice Clarence Thomas the ability to testify both before and after his accuser. From his chairman’s perch, meanwhile, Biden took a sharply inquisitorial line of questioning toward Hill, and reassured the country that Thomas’s character was beyond reproach.
Source: New Republic
Power Women at a Time of Challenge – On Pushback and Where We’re Headed
July 10, 2019 by
These days I sometimes struggle to find the words to share about the progress we are making as women.
When I struggle, I remember what Anita Hill told me last year at our first ever Power Women Summit in Los Angeles. I asked how she has persevered year after year since her testimony against Clarence Thomas was doubted and ultimately ignored by the Senate. She said: “Because I knew it wasn’t the end. I knew it was the beginning.”
Source: The Wrap
What We Can Learn from Anita Hill About Putting a Stop to Sexual Violence
July 8, 2019 by
Anita Hill forever became a household name when she testified that the now Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her during the time she worked with him ten years prior at the age of 25. During the hearing Hill was asked several questions, some leading, and some outright offensive; however, she remained steadfast in the face of the highest court of the United States and shared her truth. Today, Hill is still fighting for the right for people to live a life free of sexual harassment and violence through her work as a professor, researcher, and writer.
Conversations about the prevalence and devastating emotional, physical, and economic effects that sexual violence and reporting sexual violence can have on a person — and how these effects disproportionately devastate lower wage working women of color — have reached a national level in the United States.
Source: BeLatina