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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 supremacists in 1944—the height of the Jim Crow era. Taylor died late last year, but not before her story—and her long fight for justice—began to receive the national attention it so richly deserved. Earlier this month,…
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Viola Davis Slays Her 2018 Women’s March Speech: ‘Nothing and No One Can Be Great Without a Cost’
She came. She roared. She conquered. Actress Viola Davis, who has been thrilling audiences with her passionate, deeply felt words since at least 2017 (or that year she made us all cry at the Oscars), gave no less at the Women’s March 2018 in Los Angeles this past Saturday. Decked out in a leather…
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White Male Privilege a Problem? #MeToo, Say Women of Color
Women of Color Want Links Between Movements Smiley, Suspended by PBS, Announces New Projects Imprisoned Sexual Abuse Victims Have No Voice Bezos Gives $33 Million for ‘Dreamer’ Scholarships Press Played Role in Rape Case Oprah Publicized Daily News Owns Up to Late Columnist’s Smear Harvard Crimson Latinos on ‘Micro-Aggressions’ Short Takes People of color and…
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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 Abbeville, Ala., when a group of white men abducted and raped her. Taylor refused to stay silent about the assault. Two grand juries refused to bring charges against her attackers. Taylor, who died at…
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ICYMI: Oprah Wants Us All to Remember Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor should never be forgotten; Oprah says so. Unless you have been hiding under a rock or a pile of work for the last two days, you may have already heard Oprah deliver what some are saying may have been a speech hinting at her candidacy for presidency in 2020. There are mixed opinions on…
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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 rapes and sexual assaults of seven black women and one black girl, ranging in age from 17 to 58. He was found guilty of 18 of 36 charges, including four charges of first-degree rape, one…
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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 actresses didn’t fare too well at the 2018 Golden Globes on Sunday night. Sterling K. Brown, the man who makes men cry, won for best actor in a TV drama for This Is Us, but his melanated peers…
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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 End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, died at a nursing home in…
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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 service in Abbeville, Ala., when seven young white men in a car stopped them and threatened them with a gun. Taylor was forced to enter the car, and the men drove off with her into…