with lucidity and deep feeling, Nancy Buirski's documentary maps an ugly trail of injustice and then widens its lens to pay tribute to the women of color whose refusal to be silent helped drive the evolution of the Civil Rights movement
despite that larger context, "The Rape of Recy Taylor" still gives a specific black woman and her experience a voice, which remains rarer than it should be. There's ultimately hope in her story in how it fueled a movement and continues to inspire people
"The Rape of Recy Taylor" works as both artifact and indictment. Buirski's film gives voice to Taylor and others like her, often letting their own art and word tell the story, hard as it may be to hear
