The "Me Too" Movement, which brought widespread national attention to the issues of sexual assault and harassment, was selected as Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2017. Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was a finalist.
Time confirmed the choice of the "Silence Breakers" on Wednesday morning:
"For giving voice to open secrets, for moving whisper networks onto social networks, for pushing us all to stop accepting the unacceptable, the Silence Breakers are the 2017 Person of the Year," Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote.
Kaepernick became a household name during the 2016 NFL preseason when he refused to stand for the United States national anthem as a form of protest against racial injustice.