TARANA BURKE

“I think the MeToo movement definitely gave predators pause to act on their inclinations,” she said. Cosby’s lawyers loudly derided her as a “con artist” during the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, in 2018. And that’s exactly how not to measure the success of the #MeToo movement, says Tarana Burke — as a scorecard of high-profile “wins” and “losses,” and through the lens of celebrity. Rather, says the advocate for sexual violence survivors, cultural change should be the key metric. Burke notes proudly that a new Pew study shows more than twice as many Americans support, rather than oppose, #MeToo.

Once again, disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein sits in a courtroom, on trial in Los Angeles while the reckoning the accusations against him launched marks a significant milestone this month.

Five years after a pair of exposes revealed Harvey Weinstein’s long trail of sexual abuse, “She Said” premiered at the New York Film Festival on Thursday.

The Soledad O'Brien hosted show “Matter of Fact'' is making an impression as a weekend syndicated news program despite hours that are an insomniac's dream.

Katie Couric’s book tour, which begins in two weeks, will have some have well known guests.

Music R Kelly FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 6, 2015, file photo, R. Kelly performs at the 2015 Soul Train Awards at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. A federal jury in New York convicted the R&B superstar Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, in a sex trafficking trial. (Photo by Al Powers/ Powers Imagery/Invision/AP, File) (Powers Imagery)NEW YORK — (AP) — Will a criminal conviction do to R. Kelly's music what years of ugly allegations couldn't? "The people that are going to listen to R. Kelly’s music are still listening to it. But when Lifetime aired “Surviving R. Kelly” early in 2019, moves against him were inevitable.

A criminal conviction may be able to do to R. Kelly’s music what years of allegations couldn’t.

Accusers and others demanding accountability for R&B superstar R. Kelly over allegations that he was abusing young women and girls for decades say it took so long to get to a guilty verdict in part because his targets were Black.

America had yet to really learn about sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in front of an all-male Senate panel in October 1991.

For this year's Hispanic Heritage Month, online bookseller Bookshop.org rounded up a list of recommended reads — from picture books to memoirs — for both adults and children.

It was a phrase she had come up with over years of working with survivors of sexual violence. We don’t pay attention to the nuances of what survival looks like or what sexual violence feels like and how it impacts our lives. It feels really isolating, particularly if you’re dealing with sexual violence. I say this in the book: little Black girls in Selma and white women in Hollywood really need the same things. But that’s OK, because what happened in October 2017 was a phenomenal moment that we shouldn’t be trying to duplicate.

Tarana Burke's name became synonymous with the #MeToo movement four years ago, when allegations against Harvey Weinstein launched the social reckoning against sexual misconduct.

Butler's art celebrates the craft of quilting as well as the beauty and pride of the Black lives they depict.

The fall book season will be packed with new works by such high-profile authors as Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney and Colson Whitehead.

Books-Megan Rapinoe FILE - Soccer player Megan Rapinoe poses for photos on the red carpet of the Women's Sports Foundation's 40th annual Salute to Women in Sports in New York on Oct. 16, 2019. Rapinoe has selected #MeToo founder Tarana Burke's memoir, “Unbound,” for her new book club. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) (Mary Altaffer)NEW YORK — (AP) — Megan Rapinoe is such a fan of #MeToo pioneer Tarana Burke that the soccer star chose Burke's upcoming memoir, “Unbound,” for her new book club before she had even read it. She says she has made several choices for her online book club, sponsored by Literati, a subscription book company that also has teamed with Roxane Gay and Steph Curry among others. Burke's memoir comes out Sept. 14 and book club members will receive a copy Sept. 1.

Megan Rapinoe is such a fan of #MeToo pioneer Tarana Burke that the soccer star chose Burke's upcoming memoir, “Unbound,” for her new online book club before she had even read it.

(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) (Evan Agostini)NEW YORK — (AP) — Anita Hill educated a nation about workplace sexual harassment back in 1991 with calm, deliberate testimony against Clarence Thomas. Katz said the Cuomo result would simply never have happened before #MeToo. Tarana Burke, the activist who gave the #MeToo movement its name, noted that many had been disturbed by the fact that Cuomo, who presented himself as a strong ally of the #MeToo movement, is accused of engaging in harassing behavior at the very same time. “The fact that he would do this lets me know that power is just insidious,” she said of Cuomo. When people think of #MeToo, I want them to think of 22-year-old college students … (people) thinking bigger and brighter and braver and bolder than I am."

Since its launch in 2017, the #MeToo movement has experienced some fits and starts.

Cuomo Sexual Harassment Response FILE - In this image taken video provided by Office of the NY Governor, New York Gov. That component of his statement came under criticism from sexual assault survivors, their advocates and even crisis public relations managers. (Office of the NY Governor via AP ) (Uncredited)NEW YORK — (AP) — He said his actions had been misconstrued, his words misunderstood. In a taped statement Tuesday, Cuomo denied ever touching anyone inappropriately but apologized to two accusers, including former staffer Charlotte Bennett. He said he asked Bennett about her love life in a misunderstood bid to help her cope with trauma from a past sexual assault.

Cuomo Sexual Harassment Response FILE - In this image taken video provided by Office of the NY Governor, New York Gov. That component of his statement came under criticism from sexual assault survivors, their advocates and even crisis public relations managers. (Office of the NY Governor via AP ) (Uncredited)NEW YORK — (AP) — He said his actions had been misconstrued, his words misunderstood. In a taped statement Tuesday, Cuomo denied ever touching anyone inappropriately but apologized to two accusers , including former staffer Charlotte Bennett. He said he asked Bennett about her love life in a misunderstood bid to help her cope with trauma from a past sexual assault.

In his response to an independent investigation that found he sexually harassed 11 women, Gov. Andrew Cuomo cited his own family member's sexual assault to explain his behavior with accuser Charlotte Bennett.

Bill Cosby MeToo FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 file photo, Tarana Burke, founder and leader of the #MeToo movement, stands for a portrait in her home in Baltimore. “Cosby’s walking out of prison.”“I put on the news and there it was, and my heart just dropped,” Henard said. People will look back and say, ‘I was sexually assaulted a week before the Cosby verdict was overturned. “Sure, the optics of the first major conviction of the #MeToo era walking out of prison is devastating,” Banks said. Now he’s not.”As for #MeToo: “it’s a work in progress,” said Hill, who now chairs the Hollywood Commission, which combats harassment in the entertainment industry.

When Bill Cosby went to prison nearly three years ago, it was the most stunning development yet of the year-old #MeToo movement.

When Indira Henard, director of the DC Rape Crisis Center, received the text message Wednesday, she thought she wasn’t reading her phone correctly. “I put on the news and there it was, and my heart just dropped,” Henard said. “I thought about how all our survivors would be feeling.”

The needs of Black women and girls have become a focus of philanthropic efforts as major donors seek to narrow a racial wealth gap and address chronic funding disparities for groups that serve minority women.

Tarana Burke, founder and leader of the #MeToo movement, stands in her home in Baltimore on Oct. 13, 2020. A coalition of three groups vital to the #MeToo movement is collaborating on an initiative to focus on a population that has often felt left out of the conversation: Black survivors of sexual violence. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, file)It’s been more than three years since the #MeToo movement launched a culture-shifting conversation about sexual violence. In a statement, the groups said they were working together to create safe spaces for Black survivors; to confront narratives "that harm and silence Black survivors;" and lastly to come up with new practices that will help get Black survivors “believed, heard, and supported.”Burke said the most important immediate impact will simply be that a national conversation is being had. AdAmong the initiative's concrete plans: narrative research; conversation guides; a five-part event series; and “rapid-response tools” to support Black survivors who come forward.

"We, As Ourselves": Changing the dialogue around Black sexual assault survivors me too. International, the Time's Up Foundation and the National Women's Law Center are partnering to launch a new campaign aimed at changing the conversation around sexual violence within the Black community. founder and executive director Tarana Burke and actress Jurnee Smollett join "CBS This Morning" to announce the "We, As Ourselves" initiative.

"We, As Ourselves": Changing the dialogue around Black sexual assault survivors me too. International, the Time's Up Foundation and the National Women's Law Center are partnering to launch a new campaign aimed at changing the conversation around sexual violence within the Black community. founder and executive director Tarana Burke and actress Jurnee Smollett join "CBS This Morning" to announce the "We, As Ourselves" initiative.

Melvin Capital is also exiting GameStop, with manager Gabe Plotkin telling CNBC that the hedge fund was taking a significant loss. Last week they gave us the Great GameStop Stock Uprising. Online spaces are being used to radicalize people toward extremism, to plan hate crimes and attacks," she said. It’s the same thing as when Jim Cramer gets on CNBC smashing buttons.”AdIn 2017, the hashtag “MeToo" began going viral as women — and some men — shared their experiences of sexual assault on social media. Social media also helped Black Lives Matter activists organize rallies, record police violence and communicate during the marches sweeping the U.S. and other countries following the death of George Floyd last summer.

This combination photo shows poster art for political documentaries, from left, "All In: The Fight for Democracy," "Boys State," "537 Votes," "Slay the Dragon," and "The Fight." The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. In a presidential election of enormous stakes, filmmakers have rushed to finish their films before Election Day. (Amazon, from left, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max, Magnolia Pictures, Magnolia Pictures via AP)NEW YORK – The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. In a presidential election of enormous stakes, filmmakers have rushed to finish their films before Election Day, to try to inform, sway and entertain the electorate.

Black Lives Matter activists are holding a virtual Black National Convention Friday, Aug. 28, to adopt a political agenda calling for slavery reparations, universal basic income, environmental justice and legislation that entirely re-imagines criminal justice reforms. Anyone who is watching, who is both enraged or looking for action, will find a space" in the Black National Convention, Byrd said. The Black National Convention was originally planned to take place in-person in Detroit, the nations Blackest major city. Fridays convention is expected to be the largest gathering of Black activists and artists, albeit virtual, since the historic 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, which concluded with the introduction of a national Black agenda. The Black National Convention broadcast begins after the D.C. march has concluded.

Most importantly, it puts a spotlight on women of color, and the unique and painful burden they often face in coming forward. "But I also felt this pressure, this responsibility to be brave, to highlight the experience of black women as survivors. "A lot of black women felt disconnected from #MeToo initially, Burke says. Now you can come forward but what about women of color? Her message to any other survivors out there and she hopes they will come forward: Facing it frees parts of yourself that you don't even know youve missed."

Activist Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, is detailing her partner's "scary" battle with the coronavirus. "The worst was day 8 when his fever went to 102.9 and he began to have convulsions," she said. Its scary and hard and bc it affects everyone differently you just dont know. I think folks need to be prepared with meds in your house just in case." Coronavirus: Here's where to find free ebooks and audiobooks while self-isolatingShe continued: "I dont know if our story is helpful.

Activist Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, is detailing her partner's "scary" battle with the coronavirus. "The worst was day 8 when his fever went to 102.9 and he began to have convulsions," she said. Its scary and hard and bc it affects everyone differently you just dont know. I think folks need to be prepared with meds in your house just in case." Coronavirus: Here's where to find free ebooks and audiobooks while self-isolatingShe continued: "I dont know if our story is helpful.

Activist Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, is detailing her partner's "scary" battle with the coronavirus. "The worst was day 8 when his fever went to 102.9 and he began to have convulsions," she said. Its scary and hard and bc it affects everyone differently you just dont know. I think folks need to be prepared with meds in your house just in case." Coronavirus: Here's where to find free ebooks and audiobooks while self-isolatingShe continued: "I dont know if our story is helpful.

International Women's Day is a chance for brands to show what they're doing to promote equality and arguably raise their profiles and sell more too. #SexResponsibly," on Valentine's Day with ads stating: "Buying someone a drink doesn't buy you a yes," and it aims to continue the conversation ahead of International Women's Day. Time Magazine has published covers of 100 "Women of the Year" for International Women's Day 2020. Reebok, owned by Adidas, just dropped its 2020 "It's a Man's World" collection ahead of International Women's Day. "Scandal" creator Shonda Rhimes and star Kerry Washington pose as part of a campaign by non-profit Care for International Women's Day.