Why Can’t We Have Anita Hill?

Anita Faye Hill is a stellar human being. She was valedictorian of her high school in Oklahoma and after getting a bachelor’s degree (with honors) from Oklahoma State University went on to Yale Law where she also graduated with honors. She’s currently a professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the university’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Last year, she published <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040489934/believing-is-a-book-only-anita-hill-could-have-written" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">“Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence</a>,” Most importantly, she’s one of the first people to stand up against sexual harassment in the United States. I can hardly imagine the pressure she was under when, as a young Black woman, she was called to testify before the all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 where she was publicly bullied and harassed for her pains. <a href="https://medium.com/fourth-wave/why-cant-we-have-anita-hill-a1cc2f7766a5">Learn More</a>