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Before hashtags reshaped the internet, becoming a tool of entertainment, politics, and war, civil rights activist Taranka Burke began using the phrase “me too” to empower women of color who experience sexual assault, harassment, and abuse.

With its focus largely on crimes against powerful white women, the #MeToo movement has been accused—fairly—of ignoring the needs of the women it was started to help.