Tag: Anita Hill

  • Nation & World

    How they remember ‘Tree’

    Those who knew civil rights scholar, legendary public defender, and voice for equality recall his kindness, generosity, and homemade sweet-potato pie.

    13 minutes
    Charles Ogletree walks past crowd of well-wishers including an applauding former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
  • Nation & World

    Anita Hill on ending gender harassment and violence

    At a Harvard Radcliffe Institute talk, Anita Hill discussed her new book, which is part memoir and part legal and cultural analysis.

    5 minutes
    Anita Hill and Evelynn Hammond
  • Nation & World

    Minding the gaps

    At the fourth annual Anita Hill Lecture on Gender Justice, Wake Forest University Professor Melissa Harris-Perry said that while more women have entered into today’s knowledge economy, they still make only 77 cents to every dollar men earn — and black and Latino women earn even less.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From awareness to action

    Anita Hill says it’s time for the national conversation on sexual harassment to get “beyond awareness to consequences” for gender violence.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Anita Hill looks back, and ahead

    Legal scholar Anita Hill discussed her experience during the 1991 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the civil rights work that it inspired.

    4 minutes