Who Are The Silence Breakers? 'TIME's Person Of The Year Is A Nod To The #MeToo Movement

On Wednesday morning, Dec. 6, Time Magazine announced its 2017 Person of the Year, and it's not a person at all. The magazine has chosen to highlight the #MeToo movement and selected "The Silence Breakers," the people who paved the way for the national conversation on sexual assault. The decision was announced during the Wednesday morning airing of NBC's Today Show, which addressed who the Silence Breakers on TIME's Person Of The Year cover are.

"The galvanizing actions of the women on our cover…along with those of hundreds of others, and of many men as well, have unleashed one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s," a statement from Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal read.

On the cover of the magazine's Person of the Year issue, five women are photographed including actress Ashley Judd, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, and singer Taylor Swift.

Before the publication announced its honoree, it had announced a shortlist that had been narrowed to include former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who inspired the movement that saw other NFL players kneeling dring the national anthem in protest, former FBI director Robert Mueller, the special counsel in charge of independently running the Department of Jstice's Russia investigation, and President Donald Trump.

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