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Anita Hill Talks about Speaking Truth to Power

By Donnetta Carter
The Truth Contributor

On March 29, 2017 at the Toledo Lucas County Main Branch Library, McMaster Center, the Authors Authors Spring Series presented Anita Hill, author and attorney, who spoke before a packed audience along with engaging her listeners with a Q & A before her closing remarks. Earlier there was a private reception hosted by the Library and The Blade.

Hill is an advocate for civil rights and equality, as well as the author of Reimaging Equality and Speaking Truth to Power. Hill is a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University where she has brought awareness to a national level about the issue of sexual harassment. 
 



Anita Hill and Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson

Due in large measure to Hill’s efforts, the United States Congress passed a law that allows sexual harassment victims to seek out damage awards as well as compensation and reinstatement.

Hill's commentary has been published in Newsweek, the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Time. Also, has made appearance on national television programs such as Meet the Press, The Today Show, Good Morning America and The Tavis Smiley Show.

In April 2016, HBO Film documentary released "Confirmation" which reviewed Washington politics and the famous 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings during which Hill accused then-Judge Thomas of sexual harassment. Those hearings helped change how Americans experience and perceive the issue of workplace sexual harassment.

Hill said that she wrote her current book in order to explore race and gender issues that impact homeownership and employment.

At Brandeis, Hill teaches several classes that deal with equality by examining gender issues, social policy, race and legal history.

 

Copyright © 2017 by [The Sojourner's Truth]. All rights reserved.
Revised: 08/16/18 14:12:38 -0700.

 

 


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