Anita Hill and the Senate ‘sham trial’ that echoes down to Kavanaugh

In 1991, a panel of men tormented a professor who accused a supreme court nominee of sexual harassment. Nearly three decades later, how far have we come?

America held up a mirror and did not like what it saw: a lone black woman opposite a row of 14 white men. The law professor Anita Hill was at the Capitol in Washington to describe allegations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas, a nominee for the supreme court. But to women in the room, it was Hill who was in the dock.

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