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A conversation with the award-winning novelist Tayari Jones about Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Fo

A conversation with the award-winning novelist Tayari Jones about Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford. View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Friday, September 28, 2018 [More Race/Related »]( In the Shadow of the Brett Kavanaugh Hearings, a Celebration of Sisterhood [] [Lauretta Charlton] Lauretta Charlton This week made me think a lot about black sisterhood as an antidote to which many black women turn in times of pain and suffering. In 1991, Tayari Jones was a 20-year-old graduate student at the University of Iowa working on her Ph.D. She was a young black woman who had grown up in Atlanta, a graduate of Spelman College. Iowa, more than 90 percent white, was a culture shock, and the isolation that Ms. Jones felt there was made more palpable by the fact that the Clarence Thomas hearings were playing out in the background. “I felt enraged and hopeless and I didn’t know what a person like me could do to help,” Ms. Jones, who went on to become an award-winning novelist, told me this week. Then one day, a black woman, a stranger, stopped her on a street and told her that a lot of other black women were putting together a full-page ad to appear in The New York Times in support of Anita Hill. Ms. Jones agreed to sign her name and donate $25, even though she was living on $800 a month, half of which went toward rent. “I told her, ‘I don’t have any money. I’m just a student.’ But she said, ‘It’s important that you give money. It’s important that you are willing to make a sacrifice toward what you believe. Signing your name is important because your good name is important. But you underscore this moment by giving.’” Ms. Jones can’t recall if she ever saw the woman again, but she recently [shared]( an image of the ad on Twitter after watching confirmation hearings for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. What struck me most about the ad when I saw it for the first time was the simplicity of its design. A statement, six paragraphs long, titled “African American Women In Defense of Ourselves,” surrounded by the names of 1,600 black women in tiny type. “The print was so small you couldn’t really see our individual names unless you were looking for them,” Ms. Jones told me. “But everyone squinted. Everyone in it wanted to find her own name.” The collective power channeled by the ad is a perfect example of the tradition of black sisterhood at work, a tradition that I leaned on a lot this week as I prepared myself to watch Christine Blasey Ford testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her memory of being sexually assaulted as a teenager. “When you look at the ad you just feel how many names there are, but no particular name is highlighted or bolded,” Ms. Jones said. “My name is there and a few rows over, Audre Lorde’s name is there. But our names are the same.” Our names are the same. “Black women’s feminist contributions are very often erased,” Ms. Jones observed. But at the same time, I am reminded that the influence of black women — black sisterhood — is everywhere. This week, 1,600 men signed their name in a [full-page ad]( in The Times. “We Believe Anita Hill. We Also Believe Christine Blasey Ford,” it said. It also referenced the original from 1991. “The benefit of the thing being done the first time is that it makes it easier for it to be done a second time,” Ms. Jones said. “That’s how progress works.” ADVERTISEMENT How Americans Are Reacting to Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony [] T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times Across the country, Americans tuned their televisions Thursday to the live footage of two lives, and two stories, brought together in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. After the TV countdown clocks ticked down to the 10 a.m. opening, [Christine Blasey Ford came forward]( for the first time on camera to describe the night that altered her life forever, when, she says, a 17-year-old Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. Hours later, Judge Kavanaugh came before the committee and delivered a blistering defense of his reputation and denied Dr. Ford’s allegations. Like the Watergate hearings, the O.J. Simpson trial, the [Anita Hill hearings]( before it, the hearing on Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination collectively riveted the nation, with political history unfolding in real time. While many people went about their days, other Americans watched in hopes of seeing, finally, a fuller portrait of Dr. Blasey, a Palo Alto University professor who for days had been mostly known from a blurry photo that showed her smiling, in a happier moment, behind a pair of wraparound glasses. They watched to analyze the work of [Rachel Mitchell]( a sex-crimes prosecutor from Maricopa County, Ariz., who was plucked from relative obscurity by Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to question Dr. Blasey. They watched to see what might become of Judge Kavanaugh — and whether he will soon ascend to one of the country’s most powerful positions. Follow along with our national correspondents as they gather reactions from around the country. [This is an excerpt. Read the full story [here.]( ADVERTISEMENT Connect With Us. [A quinceanera party was held for Ashley Hernandez in the basement of a flower shop in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. The quinceanera is a traditional hispanic celebration that symbolizes a transition into womanhood when a girl turns 15.] A quinceanera party was held for Ashley Hernandez in the basement of a flower shop in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. The quinceanera is a traditional hispanic celebration that symbolizes a transition into womanhood when a girl turns 15. Roy Baizan for The New York Times We are celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month, which began Sept. 15 and concludes Oct. 15. Once a week, we will have a dedicated Instagram photo shot by a Hispanic photographer that honors and highlights Hispanic culture and issues in New York City. We will also be hearing from the photographers themselves as they discuss what their Hispanic heritage means to them. If you have experienced, witnessed or read about a hate crime or incident of bias or harassment, you can use [this form]( to send information about the incident to [Race/Related]( and our partners in the [Documenting Hate project](. Editor’s Picks We publish many articles that touch on race. Here are a few you shouldn’t miss. [The annual Eichsfeld Day festival shows the inroads being made by right-wing groups in Germany.]( Mauricio Lima for The New York Times [Face Paint, Balloons and ‘White Power’: German Neo-Nazis Put on a Pretty Face]( By JOHN ELIGON Clashes in the German city of Chemnitz drew global attention. But a festival in tiny Leinefelde reflects the quieter inroads being made by the far right. [Bill Cosby and his publicist, Andrew Wyatt, at the Montgomery County Courthouse on Tuesday. Mr. Wyatt suggested that Mr. Cosby’s prison sentence was an unfair result of the #MeToo movement.]( Mark Makela/Getty Images North America [Cosby’s Team Alleges Racism and Sexism, Calling Him Victim of a ‘Sex War’]( By JULIA JACOBS Bill Cosby’s publicist also drew a comparison to accusations of sexual misconduct against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, the nominee to the Supreme Court. [Howard Kirschenbaum, right, helped students at the University of Mississippi register to vote on Tuesday. Mr. Kirschenbaum is a veteran volunteer of the Freedom Summer 1964.]( Brandon Dill for The New York Times [A New Class of Voting Rights Activists Picks Up the Mantle in Mississippi]( By AUDRA D. S. BURCH More than 50 years later, Freedom Summer 1964 veterans return to the south to help a new generation of leaders register voters. 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