Anita Hill on Fighting Gender Violence for Thirty Years, How the Digital Economy Infringes on Our Civil Rights, and the Mask Debate in Schools
Our Body Politic · Cedric Wilson, Juleyka Lantigua, Jen Chien, Kojin Tashiro, Paulina Velasco, Farai Chideya, Bridget McAllister, Veralyn Williams
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Show Notes
Host Farai Chideya talks with Anita Hill thirty years after she first testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. She discusses what we can do to address sexual assault in her new book, “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.” Nicol Turner-Lee of the Brookings Institution explains why private tech companies should not go unregulated. Polly Irungu shares why she founded Black Women Photographers to provide new pathways into her industry. And on Sippin’ the Political Tea, Errin Haines of The 19th and legal analyst Tiffany Jeffers of Georgetown Law join Farai to discuss the week’s news.
EPISODE RUNDOWN
0:35 Professor Anita Hill on ending gender violence in the U.S.
12:36 Nicol Turner-Lee on the real impact of an unregulated digital economy
25:20 Polly Irungu on investing in Black women and non-binary photographers
31:09 Sippin’ the Political Tea: legal analyst Tiffany Jeffers and political contributor Errin Haines discuss the future of the GOP, abortion laws, and mask mandates in schools