Leslie Jones and the Power of Speaking Up

Leslie Jones—the star of Ghostbusters and, this week, both a victim of hate speech and a champion of fighting back against it—appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers Thursday night. The pair’s conversation, unsurprisingly, focused on the week’s news: the banning of @Nero (otherwise known as Milo Yiannopoulos, the self-proclaimed “most fabulous supervillain on the internet”) from Twitter after he helped foment a racist, sexist harassment campaign against Jones.