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This article was all about Oprah Winfrey who delivered a rallying cry to women and hope for "a new day" when receiving the Cecile B. DeMille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes. This year’s Golden Globes awards show was unlike any other. Celebrities wore all black in a show of solidarity for women who experience sexual harassment and assault. Award winners spoke about the “Me Too” moment. Throughout Oprah Winfrey's speech, she brought the crowd to its feet and spoke over thunderous applause, invoking her journey from a little girl watching Sidney Poitier win accolades to taking the stage to be honored herself. She also spoke specifically about “Me Too,” and told the story of Recy Taylor, a black woman gang-raped by a group of white men in Alabama in 1944. In 1944, Recy Taylor was just walking home from a church service she’d attended in Abbeville, Alabama, when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped and left blindfolded by the side of the road coming home from church. They threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone, but her story was reported to the NAACP where a young worker by the name of Rosa Parks became the lead investigator on her case and together they sought justice. But justice wasn’t an option in the era of Jim Crow. The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. …show more content…

It really brought attention to sexual harassment in workplaces and all the sexual harassment in Hollywood today. After reading this article I wondered if I know anyone who has been sexually harassed. It made me wonder if I will ever experience sexual harassment in today's world. I think the message she was trying to send was that we need to fix the problem of sexual harassment that has been going on for years. I think she accomplished just that she brought the crowd to cheer and clap and explained how this problem has been going on for years by bringing up Recy

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