Getting Even with Anita Hill

Arlan Hamilton is not the typical Silicon Valley venture capitalist. She built a venture capital fund from the ground up while experiencing homelessness.  Anita Hill sits down with Hamilton to discuss the personal obstacles Hamilton faced as well as how she is providing solutions to the systemic disadvantage that entrepreneurs of color face in trying to navigate Silicon Valley.   

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Anita Hill speaks with Gagosian artist and social sculptor Rick Lowe about his Project Row Houses, which redefined space in one Houston neighborhood and is a direct investment in his community’s future. Lowe explains the role of creativity and art in helping people imagine equality for themselves.  

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Anita Hill speaks with Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, about the roles space and representation play in achieving equality and how museums are being reinvented to reflect diverse artists and audiences.

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This week, we're sharing a conversation Anita Hill had on another Pushkin show, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso. Talk Easy is a different kind of interview show, where guests slow down and share how they arrived at the place they're at today—and where they hope to go tomorrow. In this episode, Anita replays the phone call she received from President Biden in 2019, the weight of her decision to speak out against Clarence Thomas, the sign...

What do you think of when you hear the name Bill Cosby? Anita Hill speaks with W. Kamau Bell, the creator of the new documentary series, “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” about how to have difficult conversations, like the one in Bell’s film which reckons with Cosby’s achievements as well as his transgressions and the lasting effects.

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Sharing an episode of another show from Pushkin, Well-Read Black Girl: Host Glory Edim talks to Anita about her latest book, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence. They discuss the need to believe women when they're brave enough to speak their truth, and the work Hill does with the Hollywood Commission to help victims of gender-based violence.

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Dawn Hudson, the C.E.O. of the Academy of Motion Pictures, talks with Anita Hill about the legacy of #OscarsSoWhite and why the hashtag still has relevance 7 years later. When will more people of color be recognized at the Oscars?  

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Anita Hill interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw, the legal scholar who coined the terms intersectionality and critical race theory, about the battle over curricula, its impact on students and the political co-opting of critical race theory. 

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Georgetown Law professor Susan Deller Ross was the only member of Anita Hill’s 1991 legal team who had experience in sexual harassment litigation. Hill and Ross discuss the climate around sexual harassment at the time and reveal new information about the hearing.

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Sukari Hardnett was one of the witnesses who was never called to testify at Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991. She submitted a sworn affidavit to the Committee, describing the sexual harassment she witnessed while working with Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. But Hardnett was never contacted by the Committee or its Chair, then-Senator Joe Biden. Hardnett and Hi...

What’s on the line as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson begins the Supreme Court confirmation process? Anita Hill and journalist and social critic Marc Lamont Hill discuss the importance of this historic nomination and what it means for representation, justice and equality in the United States. In this series-opening episode, you’ll hear what the appointment of a Black woman to the Supreme Court means for America, and what Getting Even m...

Anita Hill has a lot on her mind. The lawyer, author and educator learned first-hand about our country’s shortcomings, and despite it all, still believes that society’s biggest problems can be solved. On her new podcast, Getting Even, Anita Hill speaks with the greatest thinkers, artists, and activists in the fight today, sharing stories from her life and exploring how we can uphold equality, even when society does not. Coming from...