Seated on the stage of a packed room at Washington, D.C.’s National Press Club on Thursday night, Recy Taylor smiled softly as the audience stood and applauded her. Dressed in a royal purple skirt ...

*After Oprah referenced the rape of Recy Taylor in her infamous Golden Globes speech, members of the Congressional Black Caucus is now set to honor her during Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech.

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 ...