Getting Even with Anita Hill

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This week, we're excited to share an excerpt from one of our favorite podcasts, The Brown Girls Guide to Politics. Host A'shanti Gholar leads conversations with women of color who are changing the face of politics. Tune in to hear a clip of her conversation with the President of NARAL, Mini Timmaraju, about reproductive rights and the Supreme Court.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anita Hill speaks with her friends Emma Coleman Jordan and Beverly Guy Sheftall, feminists, activists and scholars, about their work and her friendships with them over the decades. The events of 1991 challenged each in different ways; together they forged a path forward with the support of each other.  If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arlan Hamilton is not the typical Silicon Valley venture capitalist. She built a venture capital fund from the ground up while experiencing homelessness.  Anita Hill sits down with Hamilton to discuss the personal obstacles Hamilton faced as well as how she is providing solutions to the systemic disadvantage that entrepreneurs of color face in trying to navigate Silicon Valley.       iHeartmedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries. If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure tosubscribe to our email list.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anita Hill speaks with Gagosian artist and social sculptor Rick Lowe about his Project Row Houses, which redefined space in one Houston neighborhood and is a direct investment in his community's future. Lowe explains the role of creativity and art in helping people imagine equality for themselves.   If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anita Hill speaks with Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, about the roles space and representation play in achieving equality and how museums are being reinvented to reflect diverse artists and audiences.   If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anita Hill interviews author and educator Monique Morris about the adultification of Black and Brown girls, the scrutiny their bodies and behaviors receive, and the work Dr. Morris is doing to shift the narrative around Black girlhood.  If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.  If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.   You can hear more episodes of Talk Easy at https://link.chtbl.com/gettingeventalkeasy Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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.   If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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. If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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?   If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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.  If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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. If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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.   If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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. If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Author, lawyer, and feminist icon Anita Hill tackles the tough questions about equality and what it takes to get there on her new podcast Getting Even with Anita Hill. Episodes coming out weekly, starting 02/28.  Getting Even drops on Fridays. iHeartmedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries. If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com