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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><font size="3"><b>Cambridge
Forum</b></font><br>3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA
02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email:
director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br><i><b>Release</b></i>
September 30, 2011<br><br><br><b>REIMAGINING EQUALITY: Stories of
Gender, Race, and Finding Home</b><br><br>On Tuesday October 4 , 2011
at 8 p.m. Cambridge Forum hosts <b>Anita Hill</b> discussing her new
memoir <i>Reimagining Inequality</i>. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
praises Hill's book as “a personal narrative that reaches across
color and class to explore how our family homes and our national home
are inextricably linked to how we understand achievement,
opportunity, and equality.” Advance reservations are requested;
please call 617-495-2727 or e-mail director@cambridgeforum.org.<br></font></font></font><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-US">Hill
takes us on a journey that begins with her own family story and ends
with the current mortgage meltdown. Along the way we visit homes
across America and meet some extraordinary African American women
from Lorraine Hansberry to Baltimore hairdresser Anjanette Booker.
How successful have the movements for racial and gender equality been
in eliminating barriers to opportunity in the 21</span><sup><span lang="en-US">st</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
century? Have the victories been robust or fragile? How is the
current economic crisis affecting America's commitment to equality?
What challenges does she see ahead?</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Anita
Hill</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
is a professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at
Brandeis University. The youngest of thirteen children, she grew up
on a farm in rural Oklahoma. Iafter receiving her JD from Yale Law
School in 1980, she worked in private practice and for the federal
government in Washington, D.C. Hill is the author of numerous
professional articles on international commercial law, bankruptcy,
and civil rights. Her book </font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>Speaking
Truth to Power </i></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">detailed
her experience as a witness in Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court
confirmation hearings. She writes and lectures widely on issues of
race and gender equality.<br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and
edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the
public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in
their entirety on demand by visiting our website at
cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH.</font></font></font></p>
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Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
"Bringing People together to talk again . . ."
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