Why Oprah’s Visit to Recy Taylor’s Grave Matters
Before there was #MeToo, there was Recy Taylor, a black woman living in Alabama who was gang-raped by white…
White Male Privilege a Problem? #MeToo, Say Women of Color
- Women of Color Want Links Between Movements
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus Will Honor Recy Taylor During Trump’s State of the Union
On Sept. 3, 1944, 24-year-old Recy Taylor and two friends were on their way home from a late-night church service in…
ICYMI: Oprah Wants Us All to Remember Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor should never be forgotten; Oprah says so.
Rosa Parks, Recy Taylor and Gertrude Perkins Are Mothers of the #MeToo Movement
In 2016, former Oklahoma City Police Officer and rapist Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison for the…
Black Dresses, Hardly Any Black Winners ... So Oprah Saved the Day
Although it was all-black everything—from the carpet to the attire to Oprah Winfrey’s black-ass table—black actors and…
Recy Taylor, Catalyst for Anti-Rape Activism in the Jim Crow South, Dead at 97
Recy Taylor, whose story of sexual assault at the hands of six white men in 1944 is featured in the book At the Dark…
The Rape of Recy Taylor Looks Back at a Horrific but Largely Forgotten Case From the Jim Crow South
Say her name: Recy Taylor. In 1944, 24-year-old Recy Taylor and two friends were walking back from a late-night church…