#MeToo Made Hollywood Better. So Can This National Movement.
It's not just about supportive Instagram posts. Hire and promote more people of color and remove toxic content.
HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show” was both a hit and a step forward for women of color.
Photographer: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO via Getty Images
At the height of the #MeToo movement, as powerful sexual offenders were brought down and women began to feel empowered by what newspapers were calling a “watershed moment,” a question still lingered in an undercurrent of hopelessness: Will anything ever truly change?
The U.S. is having to face itself in the mirror once again, as nationwide protests call for racial equality and justice in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and too many other black citizens by police officers. The same frustrating question lingers.