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Kerry Washington, Tracee Ellis Ross, Lena Waithe, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Angela Robinson and Laverne Cox shared a message encouraging viewers to “stand by us, stand for us, stand with us” against harassment and for justice, at the event held on Monday night. 

They gave out a group message about the #MeToo movement before the Best Actress in a Drama Series prize. Each of the ladies delivered a sentence of the statement before passing it on to the other. 

“We are America’s black women,” Washington said, with Ross adding in: “Forces of nature.” The group said that black women had “always been on the front lines of change” and challenged viewers to “stand by us, stand for us, stand with us.” They then delivered a series of messages starting with the phrase “Time’s up.”

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