Tarana Burke is Recy Taylor’s wildest dream made flesh—a living, breathing legacy of the movement to end sexual violence, whose voice has rippled across the globe and into the marrow of justice itself. As Recy once stood, trembling but unbroken, demanding dignity in the face of unspeakable terror and a world designed to silence her—Tarana stands now, fierce and unflinching, carrying forth the ancestral torch of resistance, truth-telling, and radical love. In a time when it was deadly to speak, Recy did. In a time when the world needed a reckoning, Tarana answered. Together, they form a lineage of liberation too often erased, but never extinguished.  Guests of The Recy Taylor Centers will rise in this spirit— rooted in the soil of struggle and triumph. Built on historic Underground Railroad land in Central New York, this is not merely a space but a vessel of ancestral memory, where  anyone who visits can find voice, echo prayers of healing, tap into the wisdom of Harriet Tubman, and spread wings humming with the intentions of generations.