Several women of color in entertainment work with the Time’s Up initiative to ensure their industry’s reckoning with sexual violence doesn’t just benefit White survivors. These women held up decades of accusations against R. Kelly —a man whose alleged serial abuse of Black girls and women has not led to incarceration or an end to his music career —in a new statement that The Root published today (April 30).

Source: Time’s Up’s Women of Color Amplify Calls to #MuteRKelly