Skip to main content

Said@Duke: Tarana Burke on Society's Complicity on Sexual Violence

Part of the Said@Duke 2018-2019 Series
Tarana Burke: “We won’t survive if we don’t do everything we can to change society’s relationship to and understanding of and complicity with sexual violence.”

Tarana Burke, founder of the #metoo movement, spoke about how the civil rights movement inspired her campaign against sexual violence. She spoke at the university's annual commemoration of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 20 in Duke Chapel.

To read more about the speech, click here.