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Mar 2022
40m 31s

Anita Hill on The Supreme Court’s Future...

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About this episode

It’s a historic moment: America has its first-ever Black woman Supreme Court nominee, and host Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down with a legend, Professor Anita Hill, to talk about the law, and why she’s “elated” at the possibilities ahead. Also on the table: Hill’s new podcast, Getting Even, and her memories of her mother. Plus, journalist Josie Duffy Rice pops in to talk to Brittany about what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson might bring to the Court.

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