02 Feb Yale Daily News | Film screening explores race relations, sexual assault

In a speech celebrating the #MeToo movement at the Golden Globes on Jan. 7, Oprah Winfrey highlighted the story of Recy Taylor, a black woman raped by six white men in 1944. On Saturday, director Nancy Buirski came to the Whitney Humanities Center for a screening of her documentary about Taylor’s experiences.

02 Feb The Root | Viola Davis Slays Her 2018 Women’s March Speech: ‘Nothing and No One Can Be Great Without a Cost’

"We only move forward when it doesn’t cost us anything,” she said. “But I’m here today saying that no one and nothing can be great unless it costs you something."

02 Feb CNN|Viola Davis’ full speech at women’s march

Actress Viola Davis speaks of her own experience of sexual abuse at the Women's March in Los Angeles.Recy Taylor invoked by Viola Davis...

18 Jan News Wire | Nancy Buirski’s “The Rape of Recy Taylor” To open 6th annual Toronto Black Film Festival as a Canadian Premiere

A powerful film on the legacy of physical abuse of black women and Rosa Parks' intimate role in Recy Taylor's story!

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - 7:30PM at Isabel Bader Theatre
Tickets on sale now at TorontoBlackFilm.com

18 Jan The Daily Beast Recy | Taylor’s ‘Baby’ Brother: Decades Before #MeToo, She Was ‘a Fighter’

“Their time is up. Their time is up. And I just hope—I just hope that Recy Taylor died knowing that her truth, like the truth of so many other women who were tormented in those years and even now tormented, goes marching on.” - Oprah Winfrey

18 Jan USA Today | Black lawmakers to salute Alabama’s Recy Taylor at State of the Union

In her honor, black lawmakers will wear red pins to President Trump's state of the union later this month.

18 Jan Vulture | The Rape of Recy Taylor’s Director on the Oprah Effect

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18 Jan NY Daily News | Black Congressional Caucus to honor African-American rape victim at President Trump’s State of the Union

More crucial recognition for Recy Taylor! "Ms. Taylor's quest for justice was a seminal moment in the civil rights movement." - Bonnie Watson Coleman US Congresswoman, NJ New York Daily News

18 Jan WBRC FOX6 News | The Rape of Recy Taylor

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey recognized the late Recy Taylor of Abbeville , Alabama in her Golden Globes acceptance speech on Sunday.

18 Jan Mashable | There’s a must-watch documentary about Recy Taylor, the woman Oprah shouted out in Globes speech

"Oprah put it best at the Globes when she asserted that Recy's story, "was somewhere in Rosa Parks' heart almost 11 years later, when she made the decision to stay seated on that bus in Montgomery, and it's here with every woman who chooses to say, 'Me too.'"