Anita Hill, who led fight against sexual harassment, takes on housing crisis

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BY CASSANDRA SPRATLING
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


When Sandra Kent began working on bringing Anita Hill to Detroit, she was shocked that her 17-year-old granddaughter didn't know who Hill was.

"My granddaughter is an honor student at Renaissance High School," Kent says. "She has been to Europe twice. She is a smart, accomplished young woman and she asked me, 'Grandma, who is Anita Hill?' "

Twenty years ago this month, Hill's story became national news and she unwittingly emerged as an international champion for women's rights who was both applauded and castigated for waking up the nation to the realities of sexual harassment in the workplace.

Hill, a professor and senior adviser to the provost at Brandeis University near Boston, will visit Detroit on Nov. 3- 4 to talk about her latest book, "Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home" (Beacon Press, $25.95). And as much as Hill probably would like to focus on her new book -- part family story, part examination of the detrimental impact of the housing crisis on women and people of color -- it's her old story that continues to captivate people. ...........(more)

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1. The country made a big mistake by not listening to her

Clarence Thomas went from sexually harassing his employees to pillaging the nation. That's quite a leap.

[Jumping John]

2. And Joe Biden agreed with the Reukes to not allow other women to testify about Thomas sex abuse n/t

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5. Thomas sexually harassed women. It's different from sex abuse

[DCKit]

3. Seriously. Unfit for the local judiciary.

Being PC and Republican and put him on the bench. Disgusting.

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4. The fix was already in. It wasn't a matter of listening to her. They were on a

course of plutocracy.

But Hill was a class act for trying. Anyone with a whit of sense had to empathize with her and recognize how brave she was.