Sunday, October 9th, 2011

I was in 8th grade in the fall of 1991 — far too young to fully-comprehend the Clarence Thomas Senate confirmation hearings going on in Washington at the time.

Blissfully unaware of “grown-up” issues like sexual harassment, my primary interest in the historic event centered on the fact that apparently a grown man in some sort of position of power had asked out loud “Who put this pubic hair on my Coke?”

For a 13-year-old boy, that’s high comedy.

Flash forward two decades (feels like it’s gone by in the blink of an eye) and Justice Thomas is firmly entrenched on the Supreme Court. Anita Hill, the colleague who accused him of sexual harassment, has mostly flown under the public radar since then .

Tomorrow, almost 20 years to the day since her testimony on October 11th, 1991, Ms. Hill will be appearing at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble to promote her new book, Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home. The book “weaves her own family story with America’s quest for equality.”

The event starts at 7:00 pm. Barnes & Noble is located at 2289 Broadway (corner of 82nd).

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