Getting Even with Anita Hill

Anita Hill interviews ballet dancer Misty Copeland about her experience in the predominantly white ballet world, her leading role at American Ballet Theatre, and how she built a career on her own terms. 

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This week, we're sharing a conversation Anita Hill had on another Pushkin show, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso. Talk Easy is a different kind of interview show, where guests slow down and share how they arrived at the place they're at today—and where they hope to go tomorrow. In this episode, Anita replays the phone call she received from President Biden in 2019, the weight of her decision to speak out against Clarence Thomas, the significance of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation, her mother's enduring influence, and a poem by Pauli Murray that keeps the song of hope alive in her.

 

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What do you think of when you hear the name Bill Cosby? Anita Hill speaks with W. Kamau Bell, the creator of the new documentary series, “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” about how to have difficult conversations, like the one in Bell’s film which reckons with Cosby’s achievements as well as his transgressions and the lasting effects.

 

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Sharing an episode of another show from Pushkin, Well-Read Black Girl: Host Glory Edim talks to Anita about her latest book, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence. They discuss the need to believe women when they're brave enough to speak their truth, and the work Hill does with the Hollywood Commission to help victims of gender-based violence.

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Dawn Hudson, the C.E.O. of the Academy of Motion Pictures, talks with Anita Hill about the legacy of #OscarsSoWhite and why the hashtag still has relevance 7 years later. When will more people of color be recognized at the Oscars?  

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On Sherilyn Ifill’s last day as President and Director Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Anita Hill interviews Ifill about the LDF’s legacy and her contributions. They talk civil rights – where we are today, where we’re going and what it means to run a modern day civil rights organization.

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Anita Hill interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw, the legal scholar who coined the terms intersectionality and critical race theory, about the battle over curricula, its impact on students and the political co-opting of critical race theory. 

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Georgetown Law professor Susan Deller Ross was the only member of Anita Hill’s 1991 legal team who had experience in sexual harassment litigation. Hill and Ross discuss the climate around sexual harassment at the time and reveal new information about the hearing.

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Sukari Hardnett was one of the witnesses who was never called to testify at Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991. She submitted a sworn affidavit to the Committee, describing the sexual harassment she witnessed while working with Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. But Hardnett was never contacted by the Committee or its Chair, then-Senator Joe Biden. Hardnett and Hill speak for the first time about Hardnett’s experience of being excluded from this historic hearing and how that impacted her life and the country.

 

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What’s on the line as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson begins the Supreme Court confirmation process? Anita Hill and journalist and social critic Marc Lamont Hill discuss the importance of this historic nomination and what it means for representation, justice and equality in the United States. In this series-opening episode, you’ll hear what the appointment of a Black woman to the Supreme Court means for America, and what Getting Even means to Anita Hill.

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