Archive for November 2017

On Nov. 16, Anita Hill sat down at The Washington Post offices with five current and former Democratic lawmakers: Nita M. Lowey (N.Y.), Barbara A. Mikulski (Md.), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.), Pat Schroeder (Colo.) and Louise M. Slaughter (N.Y.) — all allies of Hill during her historic appearance at the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme…

Anita Hill said former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent apology for his handling of her 1991 Senate testimony against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas is “not enough” to make up for his failure at the time “to show leadership on this issue on behalf of women’s equality.” “He said, ‘I am sorry if she felt…

In the months before Donald Trump was elected president, Tara Zrinski knocked on thousands of doors in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley to talk with voters about environmental policy. She hoped that the conversations might help elect Hillary Clinton. But some of her most poignant interactions were not about policy. They were about husbands. Read more here…

In terms of his political ambitions, former Vice President Joe Biden appears to be living in a perpetual state of what might have been. Following the unfortunate death of his son Beau Biden — who lost his battle to cancer — Biden abandoned plans to run for president. Back in March during a Q&A interview…

On her birthday, here is a salute to Ida B. Wells, the muckraking journalist and activist who rose up out of enslavement to become this nation’s most powerful voice in the battle against lynching in America. Of all the women who are the foremothers of modern day activists using media to fight systemic racism—like the women who…