I'm Lee Rowland. From the ACLU, this is At Liberty, the podcast where we discuss today's most important civil rights and civil liberties topics. Today, the origins and future of Me Too.

This month, some in the media industry marked what they called the one-year anniversary of the

Me Too movement. That is, one year after the first bombshell allegations against Harvey Weinstein

appeared in the New York Times and the New Yorker, and the Me Too hashtag went viral on social media.

But in fact, the origins of this movement and the expression Me Too are at least a decade older.

Their origin lies with the work of a civil rights advocate devoted to fighting sexual harassment

and violence against women and girls, to Rana Burke. She is here to talk to us about her work today.

And joining us in the studio is actor and activist Alyssa Milano,

whose October 2017 tweet helped take Me Too to the center of the political conversation over the past year.

Tarana and Alyssa, thank you both so much for being here today.

Thank you for having us.

Tarana, I would love to start with you because you're a lifelong activist.

And before we even get to me, too, you've advocated on a number of issues.

Can you tell us a little bit about your work as a civil rights advocate and what makes

you tick? What makes me tick? Justice? No. That's the right answer. Yeah, I come from sort of

a conscious family. And so I had a mother and a grandfather who were very, very, well, people would call them left-leaning now.

But I grew up in sort of a pan-Africanist kind of household.

And so that gave me a lot of just awareness.

And then when I was 14, I joined an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement,

which was founded by veterans of the civil rights and black power and labor

movements. And they really were concerned about making sure this next generation had carried on

this legacy of work. And so from really early at like 14, I was organizing. And it was a similar

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