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Anita Hill was born to a family of farmers in Lone Tree, Oklahoma, the youngest of Albert and Erma Hill's 13 children. [3] [4] Her family came from Arkansas, where her maternal grandfather Henry Eliot and all of her great-grandparents had been born into slavery. [5]
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.
In addition to Hill and Thomas, the Judiciary heard from several other witnesses over the course of three days, October 11–13, 1991. [29] Several witnesses testified in support of Clarence Thomas and rebutted Hill's testimony. Phone logs were also submitted into the record showing contact between Hill and Thomas in the years after she left ...
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.
In a 2010 voicemail, nearly 20 years after the contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearing of her husband, Thomas asked Hill to apologize for "what [she] did."
The 76-year-old has faced accusations of abuse of power, and leading D ... Justice Clarence Thomas, currently the longest tenured member on the bench, has faced calls to retire or recuse himself ...
Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought, centering on an accusation that he had sexually harassed Anita Hill, a subordinate at the Department of Education and the EEOC. [5] The Senate confirmed Thomas by a vote of 52–48, the narrowest margin in a century.
On Oct. 11, 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, concerning arms control and human rights. In 1809, just over three ...