The following article by Derek Hawkins was posted on the Washington Post website December 14, 2017:
Anita Hill reflects on her 1991 testimony about sexual harassment, the slow pace of change, and today’s #MeToo movement with The Washington Post’s Libby Casey. (Video: Billy Tucker/Photo: Malcolm Cook/The Washington Post)
For the second time in the past month, former vice president Joe Biden has tried to atone for his role in the aggressive questioning of Anita Hill during a now-notorious 1991 congressional hearing.
In an interview with Teen Vogue published Wednesday, Biden said he regretted the way lawmakers treated Hill when she appeared before a Senate panel to detail allegations that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her former boss, had sexually harassed her. Continue reading “Joe Biden on Anita Hill’s sexual-harassment testimony: ‘I owe her an apology’”