In the days before Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1991, he was known chiefly as a black conservative who didn't support affirmative action. That his actual legal and judicial record otherwise yielded slim pickings was also known
In October 1991, NPR's Nina Totenberg broke the story of Anita Hill's allegations of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. With the HBO movie on the events out this weekend, Totenberg joins us to talk about the events of that
“I had the opportunity to meet Anita Hill very early on, and when she was resistant to talk to me she said, 'I just don't know that I want to relive all of this again.' And kind of flippantly — because I was so passionate about the project — I said
This Saturday, HBO enters the fray with the feature film “Confirmation,” about the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings in 1991. The movie focuses on the spectacle that unfolded over several days when Ms. Hill (played by Kerry
“The People versus O.J. Simpson” might've garnered more mainstream attention, but Clarence Thomas' 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings are an underrated political and cultural event of the '90s. Aside from the obvious stakes (a lifetime Supreme