The lawyer and educator continues to add her voice in the fight to normalize conversations around consent and accountability.
Joe Biden probably dug himself an even deeper hole with Black women voters after he just couldn’t say sorry to Anita Hill for how he treated her during Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court hearing in 1991.
Anita Hill recently criticized former vice president Joe Biden's apology to her regarding her 1991 sexual harassment case against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
The pioneer against sexual harassment releases a statement.
The pain experienced by Black people in the wake of Barbara Bush’s tone-deaf commentary when it comes to race can also be tough to reconcile.
Fighting Back On October 7, 2017, Nelly was arrested after he was accused of raping a woman on his tour bus. Last week, all charges against him were dropped. Now, the rapper is suing his accuser. His lawyer Scott Rosenblum said in a statement, “Nelly has suffered very real damage to his reputation. He has […]
Roland Martin recently sat down with Washington to record a primetime special in which she discussed her controversial role and the impact the historic confirmation hearings had on her life.
Lamar and his label Top Dawg Music are being sued for using a Bill Withers sample in his song “I Do This,” featured on his 2013 mixtape.
Hill sat down to discuss the sexual harassment allegations with Melissa Harris-Perry for Essence, how she felt about Washington's portrayal of her, and why Thomas' "high-tech lynching" metaphor is still as painstaking as the three-day hearing in 1991.
So, he’s managed to piss us off again. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas—who recently voted against the Affordable Care Act, and against protection from housing discrimination (because the NBA is mostly black…yeah, seriously) —brings up slavery to ‘splain why he voted against same-sex marriage. In Friday’s landmark decision, Thomas joined Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito […]
