Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oprah’s Golden Globes speech included an inspiring tribute to Recy Taylor, who fought for justice after her 1944 rape. (Photo: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of the country first heard the name Recy Taylor during Oprah’s now-iconic Golden Globes speech. Taylor was gang-raped after ...

The story of Recy Taylor is one that is equal parts infuriating, heartbreaking and inspiring. Media mogul and visionary Oprah Winfrey honored Recy’s memory during her recent acceptance speech at the ...

Recy Taylor, who’s life story inspired the movement to end the racially motivated rape of Black women during the Jim Crow Era Black, has passed away at the age of 97. Taylor became a catalyst in the ...

At the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey told the story of Recy Taylor's rape in 1944. Taylor died last month at 97. NPR's Michel Martin reflects on... 'Recy Taylor's Rape Still Haunts Us' Last week, Oprah ...

It’s been under a month since the New York Times blew the lid off a supposed well-known secret in Hollywood that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed many women in the industry and coerced ...

With Nancy Buirski’s documentary “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” which is screening at the New York Film Festival on Tuesday night, I’m breaking a self-imposed rule of not writing negatively about festival ...

Oprah Winfrey’s rousing speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday garnered headlines for catapulting the media mogul into the ranks of possible presidential candidates, but it was perhaps most remarkable ...

The media mogul heaped praise on Recy Taylor and Rosa Parks during her Golden Globes acceptance speech OPRAH Winfrey heaped praise on icons Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor, who recently died, during her ...

Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention, died on Thursday. She was 97. Taylor died in her sleep at a nursing home in Abbeville, her brother ...