To define yourself as an activist, an artist, an individual. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Prominent black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells was a vocal critic of the suffragist movement’s racism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Seasoned activists may respond that all of this is “just politics,” but, as we have seen in earlier chapters, they are the same politics that gave rise to the New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Oldham did admit that activists had forced some needed changes, but the former cotton mill manager immediately added huffily that “this could have been done solely by negotiation, without the picketing.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a gay activist once put it, “Only by fully embracing the stigma itself can one neutralize the sting and make it laughable.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And perhaps it was for the best, since so many activists were arrested. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I learned about the music of the apartheid era and how it was the musicians and artists, even more than the politicians and activists, who informed the world about the country’s injustices. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Important historically, these were the free people encountered by France and Britain—personifications of democratic self-government so vivid that some historians and activists have argued that the Great Law of Peace directly inspired the U.S. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Another vital early development in women’s long road to the ballot took place in 1851, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met antislavery and women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They sought to cut all links with Indian activists and to move the ANC in the direction of a more confrontational strategy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She missed her activist friends and the cultural stimulation of the city. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Typical of Black Lives Matter individuals who participated in the Ferguson demonstrations is activist and educator Brittany Packnett, who states that the death of Michael Brown deepened her commitment to social justice. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Advertised as “a convention to discuss the civil and religious condition and rights of women,” it was organized by women Quakers along with pioneering women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

To green activists, as the University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon has written, restoring this long-ago, putatively natural state is a task that society is morally bound to undertake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Militants within the organization saw the election as an opportunity to install a new, more activist leadership—one which would reenergize a movement that had stalled after winning most of the battles against legalized segregation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Black nationalists such as Stokely Carmichael worked to purge longtime white activists from CORE’s leadership. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton became nervous when Post nominated her friend, activist Abigail Bush, to serve as president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The six-foot-four activist added, “If I ever assault a cop, he’s going to leave there with some physical markings.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most people hear Black Panther and they think of the movie, but Hana is quick to remind everyone the activists came first. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Everywhere the train stopped—Charleston, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and many other places, ending in New York—enormous rallies were held, featuring speeches by veteran suffragist activists, each one dressed in prison garb. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The assistance of CORE, with its national network of activists and long experience with direct-action campaigns, would be vital in transforming the Greensboro sit-in from an isolated “incident” into a true movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was really proud of my cousin and slightly intimidated she wanted me to join her political activist team at school next year. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With extraordinary bravery, civil rights leaders, activists, and progressive clergy launched boycotts, marches, and sit-ins protesting the Jim Crow system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And longtime congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights activist and moving spirit of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, denounced the ruling as a major blow to minorities in the United States. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of my life, as you know, I had been an activist, I had been impatient. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

C. P. Ellis’ ascent to power in the Ku Klux Klan paralleled Ann Atwater’s own steady climb through the ranks of community activists. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tissue-rights activists argue that it’s essential to disclose any potential financial gain that might come from people’s tissues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was becoming an activist in his old age. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say, Well, these guys don’t look like peace activists. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In New York, he had joined several socialist groups, edited newspapers, recruited students, and befriended the novelist and social activist Theodore Dreiser. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And what was their collective response to this understanding?” asked Ward Churchill, a longtime pro-Indian activist. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While dramatic progress was apparent in the political and social realms, civil rights activists became increasingly concerned that, without major economic reforms, the vast majority of blacks would remain locked in poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mott encouraged Stanton to trust her opinions and speak her mind, and Stanton found a role model in the uncompromising middle-aged activist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The firm was a powerful partner for me that helped me develop my platform as an athlete activist. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Allyssa, twelve, a huge fan of music, composed an original piece about Joe Hill, the same labor activist who Taylor and Jayme had done their project on a few years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now wasn’t the time to be an activist or a poet or any of those things. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Finally you must become a kind of activist, sharing and spreading the gospel. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll get involved with that activist group from the flyer; Mom and Jack would love that. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Friends would be there, as well as many of the activists still alive. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Board of Education, civil rights activists used direct-action tactics in an effort to force reluctant Southern states to desegregate public facilities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There are millions of activists who have mobilized after the election on your behalf, but you can do your part, too. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Barbara took time out from her work as a labor activist to set down her memories. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The ANC emerged as a truly mass-based organization with an impressive corps of experienced activists who had braved the police, the courts, and the jails. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or just find a white writer. White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening,” Grace said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In August of 1982, activist Ruth First was opening her mail in Maputo, where she was living in exile, when she was murdered by a letter bomb. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty to twenty-five years ago, social activists started a campaign to get rid of unfair, negative racial stereotypes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learn little about language and intimacy listening to those social activists who propose using one’s family language in public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this day, activists continue fighting new laws that seek to disenfranchise voters of color. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In addition to being an activist, Ray was an excellent dressmaker. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late sixties, civil rights activists might have harnessed the great idealism that the southern movement inspired in Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black activists were preaching white extermination and the place was getting ready to explode. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The activists made a peculiar claim for these classes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a slightly smaller font beneath these words, it says: Join our new group for young activists, get involved with local politics, and create the change you wish to see! The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As word spread in Seoul of his birth in and escape from a no-exit labor camp, he began to meet many of the South’s leading human rights activists and heads of defector organizations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had begun his activist career as a follower of Du Bois, fighting to integrate interstate buses, and had ended up toiling in the fields of black enterprise, Booker T. Washington’s domain. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

White activists also used lynching for a purpose other than applying their own form of “justice.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Hela is the native name for the country of Sri Lanka, where activists carry signs demanding “Justice for the Hela Nation.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, supposedly she was going to marry this guy she was in love with, some street activist or something, but her mother made her marry the Cuban, at least that’s what they told me.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It is an international activist movement that began in the African American community and campaigns against oppression and systemic violence against black people. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

FBI agents also infiltrated black community and activist organizations, sought to undermine political education efforts, and illegally and legally surveilled, targeted, jailed, and killed activists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I remember the black political activists who have argued in favor of using black English in schools. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard Fuller lived just across the street from the campus, and a contingent of students came to his door, to invite the respected activist to their meeting. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. G showed us a video during Black History Month, about a group of Civil Rights activists, in the 1960s, who were inspired by Rosa Parks. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You mean... he was an activist? With the civil rights... ?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They, like most tissue- rights activists, are less concerned about personal profits than about making sure the knowledge scientists gain by studying tissues is available to the public, and to other researchers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And since Las Casas historians, clerics, and political activists have debated whether Europeans and their descendants in the Americas are morally culpable for the enormous Indian losses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Here was the source of the mistaken strategy—the reason why activists could so easily ignore class and could consider race alone a sufficient measure of social oppression. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outrage about Guiteau boosted support for activists who had been working for years to reform the system, and the reformers gained enough votes in Congress to pass a bill. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For Hoover, that included getting his agents—often called G-men—to monitor left-wing activists. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Walter’s house in Orlando was a mecca for activists and ANC members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Mexican- Americans were consequently shocked when they heard the student activist proclaim himself and his listeners Chicanos. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Provision was also made for house arrest, the most well-known use of which was imposed on the white political activist Helen Joseph. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One very vocal opponent of the tide of ethnic imitation was the writer, civil rights activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, W. E. B. Du Bois. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Tell me more about Veronica and the street activist.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Outraged by the lack of local law enforcement interest in the case, the black community and civil rights activists persuaded the United States Department of Justice to get involved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was the minority student the political activists shouted about at noontime rallies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We in the Youth League had seen the failure of legal and constitutional means to strike at racial oppression; now the entire organization was set to enter a more activist stage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And even though we both love poetry and theater, we weren’t getting the support for the kind of creative and activist work we wanted to do.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I think now, however, that the activists tragically limited the impact of their movement with the reforms they proposed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also had become friends with Kyung’s twenty-something children: Eunice, a human rights activist he had met in Seoul, and her younger brother, David, a recent Yale graduate also interested in human rights. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I felt strongly that I wanted to be an activist, a voice for the displaced. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’m not surprised Coach West would know my costume is for one of the Black Panther activists. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Black political activists were from time to time found dangling from belts, shirts, pants, blankets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the first tobacco union was organized in Durham in 1918, the Sovereign Cigarette Company responded by firing the union activist they considered the “ringleader.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of black clergymen, journalists, civil rights activists, teachers, lawyers, students and anyone suspected of subversive acts had been detained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I interviewed a community activist who described a particular job program as a throwback to the Progressive Era. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I met young activists from around the world that night—a girl who had started an all-female internet cafe in Afghanistan; a girl who had launched a major anti-bullying campaign in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, everyone had trooped to the courthouse to demonstrate—inside, a fellow activist named Bob Eaton was being sentenced to prison for resisting the draft. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But my career as a lawyer and activist removed the scales from my eyes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My abuela was right in making my aunt do that. I mean, the Cuban guy was rich and the street activist she had been in love with ended up in jail.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s not exactly unheard of in activist circles,” said Ekemeni, her chin in her hand, her head shaking from side to side. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After the NIS, Shin told his story to counselors and psychiatrists at a government center for resettlement, then to human rights activists and fellow defectors, and then to the local and international news media. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Out on the sidewalk in front of the building, a knot of activists waved signs and shouted chants, though I can’t remember what it was they were angry about. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Antiwar activists wanted the United States out of Vietnam, honor or no honor. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the charred areas behind the fires were the blackened spikes of trees, many of them of species that activists fight to save in other parts of Amazonia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In this way I learned that archaeologists have aroused the ire of some Native American activists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Days before the second college semester began, we met the civil rights’ activist Harry Belafonte, who was motivated to meet us after seeing the Freedom Writers on television. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One heard from politicians and social activists and editorial writers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Married and in her early forties, Rosa Parks was widely known as an activist through her work with the Montgomery NAACP. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

For black activists like Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, and many others, it was impossible to separate one’s status as a woman from one’s status as an African American. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Then I say, “Maybe we can also highlight women activists and artists that people may not know.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

While she was in London, Stanton visited with Angelina and Sarah Grimké, her abolitionist friends from New York, but she was most impressed by Lucretia Mott and the work she did as an activist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The success of the Montgomery bus boycott encouraged growing numbers of civil rights activists, black and white, to challenge laws that enforced segregation. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And claiming that it is will, in its ignorance, worsen the ecological ailments that activists would like to cure. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Many years later there is something called bilingual education—a scheme proposed in the late 1960s by Hispanic- American social activists, later endorsed by a congressional vote. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of cases like these, a growing number of activists—ethicists, lawyers, doctors, and patients —are arguing cases and pushing for new regulations that would grant people the right to control their tissues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

McKissick, just five years older than Moore, not only believed in developing new strategies for achieving racial justice; he was an activist in his own right. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon Hispanic-American activists began to complain that there were too few Hispanics in colleges. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists and Indian activists, for once united, scoffed at this notion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dennis Brutus, another Coloured political activist, was a poet and writer from Port Elizabeth imprisoned for violating his bans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following day, the “Greensboro Four” had become a group of twenty activists. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Runaways turned activists saluted his generosity in their Boston speeches. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But he had decided what he wanted to do with the rest of his life: he would be a human rights activist and raise international awareness about the existence of the labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The activists asked thought-provoking questions: Why do you go to a separate school from whites? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

During the summer and fall of 1955, Montgomery’s adult black activists thought hard about the buses—which looked increasingly like Jim Crow’s Achilles’ heel. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

You remember the image: a menacing, glistening heap of firearms surrounded by the mayor, the police chief, the neighborhood activists. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“My grandma’s an old activist, and she always says to me that it’s important for us kids to have a voice. Plus, being involved in school looks good on college applications, right?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Civil rights activists who argued that the uprisings were directly related to widespread police harassment and abuse were dismissed by conservatives out of hand. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And I can’t exactly say when animal activists around the world began calling for equal billing for their own favorite species, adding in Year of the Otter, and the Whale, and the Penguin. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Whitney Young was named for a civil rights activist and had been opened in 1975 as a positive-minded alternative to busing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

PAC activists had done an excellent job of organizing the area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the reluctance may be a holdover from a long- dormant intellectual battle in which academics and activists squared off about the purported Haudenosaunee role in the U.S. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Recounted in numberless articles and books, the Maya collapse has become an ecological parable for green activists; along with Pleistocene overkill, it is a favorite cautionary tale about surpassing the limits of Nature. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thus at the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, activists and others began to turn their attention to economic problems, arguing that socioeconomic inequality interacted with racism to produce crippling poverty and related social problems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But activists should have asked why so many minority students could not meet those standards; why so many more would never be in a position to apply. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not very knowledgeable about the ANC nor was he an experienced activist, but he was respectable, and amenable to our program. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a conference of twenty social activists from war-stricken tribal areas across Pakistan, all gathered around a large table— and I was seated right next to the ambassador. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Conservative politicians who embraced this rhetoric purposefully failed to distinguish between the direct action tactics of civil rights activists, violent rebellions in inner cities, and traditional crimes of an economic or violent nature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I have always been an activist, and my personal chemistry perhaps made me reach more quickly than most ministers in the Nation of Islam that stage of dedication. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caution had become a habit; she told no one of her activist past. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Though I embraced my simultaneous roles as athlete and activist, there were times at the games when I craved time outside of the spotlight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Throughout his life, he was a passionate activist, and he participated in some major demonstrations for Native rights. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A street activist? You mean a Young Lord?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I tell him how I’ve lost all my friends because I refused to join their activist crusade. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Yet we had read in the paper that the white activist Patrick Duncan had become a member of the PAC executive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Civil rights activists have created a national movement to save affirmative action, complete with the marches, organizing, and media campaigns, as well as incessant strategy meetings, conferences, and litigation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many of these artists had been encouraged to leave the South by pioneer civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, who was also the editor of The Crisis magazine, the journal of the NAACP. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She was an elegant woman, and a political activist in her own right, a founder of Women in Action for the Prevention of Violence, an interracial Durham organization dedicated to working for peaceful integration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon E. D. Nixon and two white activists, Clifford and Virginia Durr, hurried downtown, paid her bond, and took her home, where Fred Gray later met her and agreed to be her lawyer. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Like the activists who were taking their messages to the media, I, too, wanted to do more to help change the perception of my faith. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Most human-rights activists sincerely believe in the existence of human rights. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was always quoting famous Black writers and activists. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, in late March, black ministers from the group not only gave their blessing to the action but joined students and other activists on the picket lines. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man whose house was targeted was a political activist. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Gathered around Meredith’s hospital bed, leaders from three civil rights organizations—SCLC, SNCC, and CORE—vowed to complete the march for the fallen activist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I figured an animal rights activist would’ve had a heart attack looking at all those rare skins, but maybe since Artemis was the goddess of the hunt, she could replenish whatever she shot. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

My colleague, Penn State Anthropology professor Nina Jablonksi, who is interviewed in the film, suggests that "population growth" is the elephant in the room that few climate activists are willing to address. Why "Planet of the Humans," Michael Moore’s new film about green energy, is so controversial 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Native American activists protested, stating that “Scaffold” trivialized a brutal episode in indigenous history. The year the art came down 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Maybe Ross should talk to the thousands of protesters and activists who have vanished into Saudi Arabian prisons. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

For the self-described “loudmouth, queer, Marxist activist,” it’s almost unimaginable that his politically charged songs and stories of gay intimacy, disenfranchisement and resilience would find a wider audience all these years later. WA’s pioneering gay country band Lavender Country releases first new album in 50 years 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Clumsy spam e-mails bearing toxic attachments to infect computers with snooping software appeared in opposition activists’ inboxes. Knowledge is power 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Protesting activists want varied viewpoints, non-oppressive learning environments, and protected self-expression. Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

But, as I bumbled through my new role as an on-campus activist, it was increasingly hard for me to shake the realization that being an activist wasn’t what I wanted. Confessions of a Prep-School Feminist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

A Washington Post reporter, Janell Ross, was put on leave in 2018 for participating in private strategy sessions and panels attended by Democratic lawmakers and liberal activists. Fox News once banned its hosts from speaking at partisan events. Then it went all in on CPAC. 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

"Till It's Done" samples a speech from a documentary about the late Black Panther activist Fred Hampton, who was killed in 1969 by Chicago police. D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' draws on history, sublime grooves 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

A parade of actors, celebrities and activists presented the awards, which were hosted by comedian Kate Clinton. Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The 89-year-old activist and wife of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. looks back on her life. What books to read in 2017: 26 titles to start the year 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Many of these regulations mirrored model legislation crafted by antiabortion activists, most prominently, the Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for Life. While earlier efforts to push back against Roe v. It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault 2012-10-21T12:00:00Z

It’s time to Occupy Poetry Topics: , Poetry One evening this fall, two young activists walked through the bright, modern library of the new Poetry Foundation headquarters and marched up to the glass balcony. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

Alyssa, Robin’s mother — birder, vegan, hiker, activist, friend to abandoned dogs — died two years earlier in a car crash. In ‘Bewilderment,’ Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

She later took a part-time job as an organiser for a city-wide youth activist group named the Ya-Ya Network while she was in the 11th grade. Eric Garner killing, one year on: ‘Sit down son, it’s time for The Talk’ 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

She raised me to be a feminist and an activist and I was grateful for that. What do I owe my mother? It’s not selfish or childish to refuse to forgive and forget 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Nan Goldin, the photographer and anti-opioid activist, drew attention to it last month when she revealed she was in discussions with the gallery over a retrospective. British Gallery Turns Down $1.3 Million Sackler Donation 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

I was a political activist, and there were not many of those at Woodstock. Joan Baez on 3 Days of Pregnancy and Priggishness at Woodstock 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

More recently, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander activists staged Black Lives Matter protests in Australia in solidarity with the U.S. movement. Two Artists, Continents Apart, and a Shared Language of Struggle 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

Human rights activists say the impoverished Himalayan nation has been too slow to investigate war crimes and bring to book those responsible for abuses. Nepal war-time rape victims suffer in fear, need justice: HRW 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

This year’s diverse class includes musicians, artists, writers, activists, plenty of hyphenates and many, many academics. Meet the new MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

It was the wounding of Olsen, a former Marine turned peace activist who suffered a serious head injury during protests last week, that seemed to galvanize protesters and broadened their complaints to include police brutality. Cops confront Oakland protesters with tear gas 2011-11-03T10:47:00Z

While there, he gets entangled with a group of political activists. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Political energy flowed to the Democrats’ activist wing, where there were passionate discussions about the persistence of racism and the need to shake things up at the systemic level. It’s been a tense year of infighting for Democrats. And this might be as good as it gets. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Jackson, an extremely nutty religious right activist who endeared himself to the conservative movement in the 1980s by being a black man fighting against desegregation efforts in Boston. Blaming Beyoncé and pop stars for crime? Ted Cruz backs insane theory that female sexuality causes violence 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Diane is so much deeper and more global than people might assume based on the world of fashion,” says activist Gloria Steinem, a guest at this year’s DVF Awards. ‘I became an icon. Now I want to be an oracle’: Diane von Furstenberg is ready for her third act. 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Records activists expect the CIA to petition for just such a decision. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

Later, activists began to petition for Black ownership of franchises located in Black neighborhoods — a demand that McDonald’s was initially slow to meet but eventually pursued out of shrewd self-interest. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

That this sorry, misogyny-riddled excuse for an activist group continues to be taken seriously, to attract big name celebrity supporters, is both depressing and absurd. PETA’s ridiculous new birth control stunt 2013-12-03T15:45:00Z

She starts by saying it’s an unpopular time to be a feminist, then goes into a bit about activist woman not being focused enough. 4 Comedy Specials to Watch: Seasoned Stand-Ups Making Debuts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

He then asked so many questions about local politics, filling his notebook so much, that several activists thought he was a cop. Hippies, radicals, pranksters: Jerry Rubin has a bio and Paul Krassner has our review 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

We went to different communities and asked, "Who were the activists?" "An Act of Worship" is one Muslim American's "counternarrative of our last 30 years" 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

In one switched-out lyric from the anthemic “Tuesday Song,” a bracingly self-possessed Louise used to sing, with the other clinic patients, that activists’ screaming about abortion has “nothing to do with me.” ‘The Appointment’ Review: A Chorus Line at the Abortion Clinic 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The actress and women’s rights activist says the amendment would put women on equal footing under the Constitution. Milano celebrates first House ERA hearing in over 30 years 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Rowling is facing widespread criticism from the transgender community and other activists after tweeting support for a researcher who lost her job for stating that people cannot change their biological sex. Author JK Rowling draws criticism for transgender comments 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Each one commemorates a site where a famed neighborhood figure — among them Jackson Pollock, James Baldwin and the activist Jane Jacobs — lived, or where historic events unfolded. Interactive Shadowboxes Breathe Life Into the Legacies of Village Artists 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

She was also a keen political activist and a talented cartoonist. Connie Converse: The first singer-songwriter 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

He was given the Valentine by gun-control activists two months after the massacre at Sandy Hook. Chris Murphy’s gun-control crusade has arrived back where it began 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Unlike Jamaica Plain, where a vocal group of activists fought the new Whole Foods, opposition in Detroit has been virtually nonexistent. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

It becomes clear in the first issue that the activist is not just an activist. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bringing Back Black Panther 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

“The sixth ‘station,’” he said, “signifies a journey premised on the historical and rehearsed with activist resolve.” Vivan Sundaram, 79, Dies; a Pivotal, and Political, Figure in Indian Art 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

The city was a meeting ground for beatniks and college activists, and they crowded into the tiny club to hear someone who spoke to their disdain for the status quo. Mort Sahl, comedian who satirized politics, dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

In her art and in the streets, she has also been an activist for Black Lives Matter and other causes. Solange Enters New Territory: Ballet Composer 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

The report was released in November in collaboration with Slow Factory, a climate and culture nonprofit, and Model Mafia, an activist collective. Did Your Handbag Help Destroy the Rainforest? 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

By the early ’90s, more people were growing outraged by “political correctness” in higher education, and fewer activists were flying the “P.C.” banner as a glorified ideal. How ‘politically correct’ went from compliment to insult 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

“How did Asia’s most liberal, open and cosmopolitan city … change so fundamentally?” the activist Law asks in this philosophical memoir, written from exile in London. The Varieties of Chinese Repression 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

And I’m not just talking about historical figures and activist women — we need to applaud them and appreciate them. Malala takes her passions to the small screen with Apple 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Amnesty International believes that the Azerbaijani government should afford all artists, journalists, activists and ordinary citizens the right to express themselves freely without fear of reprisal. Amnesty issues rights plea to Rihanna, Shakira before Azeri concerts 2012-10-05T20:22:33Z

Composer, conductor, activist, teacher, rule-breaker, American icon: Leonard Bernstein was a towering figure for the many American musicians who came in his turbulent wake. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

In 2006, having worked as a teacher, a paralegal and a political organizer and an activist with several grassroots organizations, he decided to apply to law school. So Long, Medical Scrubs. Jesse Williams Is Ready to Play Ball. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Even a gesture like his has roots you could trace, if you wished, to California groups like the utopian activists, the Diggers. For Paris Men’s Wear, the Next Stop Is California 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Elizabeth Banks, who plays the Republican abortion rights activist Jill Ruckelshaus, said, “One of the great things about this series is that it shows you that women are not a monolith.” ‘Mrs. America’ Depicts a Different Kind of Feminist: The Anti- Kind 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Consider the following phrases: homosexual community, homosexual activist, homosexual marriage. Cultural Studies: For Manys Gays and Lesbians, the Term ‘Homosexual’ is Flinch-Worthy 2014-03-21T21:20:09Z

Is this a loss for First Amendment rights, a win for gun control activists, or simply a case of Hollywood self-censorship? Universal decided to cancel "The Hunt" before Trump's tweets: Report 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

The student activist David Hogg, a featured subject, likens going back to school to surviving a plane crash, then boarding that same plane every day with the underlying issue unresolved. ‘After Parkland’ Review: Gun Violence Reverberates Through Time 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

He told a local news station that he believed the performance was meant to “further an activist message.” Complaint Filed After Door Closes on Drag Performers With Down Syndrome 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

But this week, as he watched activists bring down controversial statues in Britain, Belgium and several U.S. cities, he realized the official channels were a losing game. Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

Returning from this life—from personality/activist/Tweeter/famous friend to showrunner of her own half-hour sketch show on Comedy Central—is another potential negative side effect of overexposure. Amy Schumer’s missing edge: Has she outgrown her own show already? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

But both rulings were widely ignored below the Mason-Dixon line, prompting civil rights activists to draw attention to the states' continuing segregation. 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

India, meanwhile, has largely abandoned the pro-democracy movement, including the activists it once encouraged to cross the border. Siddhartha Deb welcomes a study of Burma's relations with its powerful neighbours 2011-08-19T21:55:02Z

Netflix employees walked out of the company’s offices and participated in a protest with other activists who said Chappelle was endangering transgender people. On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Dave Chappelle Mocks Kanye and Kyrie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Everyone had a nice line in self-aware self-deprecation, which seemed a quality singularly lacking in today's feminist activists. Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets | TV review 2010-03-23T06:45:00Z

Increasingly, they are being adopted by university websites and racial justice activists. The perils of associating "white" with "privilege" in the classroom 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

The theme of this year’s benefit, “Sing Her Name,” alludes to #SayHerName, an activist movement that raises awareness of the effects of police violence on black women. For Black Lives Matter, Classical Music Steps In 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The Sharps were rare but not solitary U.S. activists. They risked their lives to rescue scores of people from the Nazis. Few knew their story until now. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

She was important, Ms. Gordon said, not just as an activist but also as an archivist. A Trove on the Women’s Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

The play was written by the gay activist Larry Kramer, who fell out of favor with many gays and politicians for his strident warnings about unsafe sex and government inaction against AIDS. ?War Horse? and ?Mormon? Shine at Tonys 2011-06-13T03:00:20Z

Flowers’s parents were activists, and her childhood home in Lowndes County was a haven for civil rights leaders. How the Problem of ‘Waste’ Affects the Rural Poor 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

But for Diego Luna, the Mexican actor, producer, director and activist, it sparked an idea of how to examine the ills of his country. ‘I've benefited from a racist system’: Diego Luna on Amazon's Pan y Circo 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

These segments do, however, provide some minimal context that cuts through the rhetoric of the anti-abortion activists who are at the center of the film. ‘Battleground’ Review: A Look at the Anti-Abortion Movement 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The breach follows layoffs at the studio, which late last year committed to cutting overhead by $250 million after some of its 2013 films performed poorly and an activist shareholder criticized the studio's management. U.S. taking seriously possibility of a N. Korea role in Sony hacking 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

A generation ago, Spike Lee took the veteran director Norman Jewison to task for directing “Malcolm X,” insisting that the nuances of the civil rights activist’s story would be better served by a black filmmaker. White filmmakers, black characters and the fear of cultural appropriation 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

“They see their role as political activists,” he said. Glenn Greenwald may have quit the Intercept, but he can’t quit the feud 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

So gas advocates are fighting back hard against "Gasland" and the activist movement it represents. The gas industry attacks an Oscar nominee 2011-02-08T21:20:00Z

Photograph: Cliff Owen/AP A comic of the trial, produced live from the courtroom, is being created by artist and activist Clark Stoeckley and will be published in the autumn. Bradley Manning trial to be recreated in comic-book form 2013-06-11T12:05:00Z

In the film, Sung walks around Chinatown, shaking hands with activists, eating in local restaurants and visiting educational centers. A small family bank was the only one prosecuted after the 2008 crisis. ‘Abacus’ tells its tale. 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

The film explores the FBI’s surveillance program to target Seberg in the late 1960s for her association with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal. Kristen Stewart wants to elevate Seberg beyond the haircut 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

The villain appears to have an activist streak. Cat Girl? A Kinder, Gentler Superhero Comic 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

The “Save Lafayette” activists didn’t believe him, but when the referendum passed, that’s just what he did. Where America’s Fight for Housing Is an All-Out War 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

No line-up has been announced, but the well-known peace activist is expected to focus on issues such as environmentalism and feminism. Ono to curate Meltdown festival 2012-11-08T09:46:12Z

Fellow climate activists spoke for Greta at the Nordic Council prize ceremony Tuesday in Stockholm, Sweden. Greta Thunberg won’t accept environment prize. She wants the focus on research. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Women’s studies produced research, theory and activists who worked to write women into the history books from which they’d been largely absent. A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

What is it that motivates you to be an activist and not just another survivor? “We’ve gone through everything we’ve gone through alone”: A human trafficking survivor speaks out 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Our art and music can help activists, the people closest to injustice and lead the way forward to equality and opportunity.” John Legend honored at Grammys’ Black Music Collective event 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

A feminist and left-wing political activist, Rame was the victim of a brutal gang-rape in 1973 that Fo alleged was an attempt by fascist militants to humiliate him. Italian actress Franca Rame, wife and muse of Dario Fo, dies 2013-05-29T12:08:39Z

This prompted a backlash among some animal rights activists and claims that the organisation was more interested in being a marketing body for vegan businesses than an ethically driven campaign group. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

The filmmaker Laurens Grant follows activists trying to turn protest into lasting change. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Ugar says she and her fellow activists were not as appalled as a number of local headlines made them out to be. Chef who butchered a deer leg in front of vegan protesters: 'We won't change' 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

That mission, commemorating a failed fight against martial law, has a bracing resonance amid the Myanmar military’s recent shooting of protesters and Thailand’s crackdown on pro-democracy activists. How Do You Stage a Global Art Show Now? In South Korea, Curators Press On. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

A year later, the actor and liberal activist reportedly flew to Cuba to meet with him again for a Vanity Fair assignment. Sean Penn Was a Journalist Long Before 'El Chapo' Interview 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

Some supporters of the Cuban government accuse activist artists of trying to boost their cachet or get offered asylum through altercations with the state. Cuban indie artists challenge government at Havana arts biennial 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Its mission is to bring together audiences, film-makers and activists and to highlight pressing global issues through film. This week's new film events 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Nova’s role as a community activist offers a strong, if obvious, tie-in, although it seems at odds with her job at a newspaper. Ava DuVernay and Oprah’s ‘Queen Sugar’ makes a powerful statement about family and loss 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Leaders, artists and activists in the creative economy — a sector that accounts for a whopping $877 billion a year in American productivity — have been mulling this idea, too. Perspective | The culture is ailing. It’s time for a Dr. Fauci for the arts. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

The use of the phrase “Me Too” to vocalize solidarity with assault survivors was started in 2006 by Tarana Burke, an African American woman and civil rights activist. 'It's only a beer': the unwritten contracts between men and women 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

You started off as a social worker, and you did activist street theater for years. 'Bad guy' Luis Guzmán has fun being evil in 'Ana Maria in Novela Land' 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

Contrary to other popular entertainment about the 1960s, "Mad Men" focuses not on activists or hippies but on members of Richard Nixon's "silent majority." Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The daughter of civil rights activists, she was raised in a household that welcomed a diverse community of guests. Trump’s white nationalism torments us now, but the “centrality of whiteness” will fade away 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Animal rights activists called on tourists to shun Thai animal attractions, which they say are cruel and should be shut down, after the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, closed in June. Thailand's tiger tourism expands despite raid on infamous tiger temple 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Just days later, an activist hedge fund manager revealed a major stake in Nestlé and called on the company to shake itself up. Chocolate Aplenty, but Nary a Wonka Bar to Be Found 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be an activist, I just want to live my life. But with all the toxic stuff online, that is getting increasingly hard.” JK Rowling row hints at generational rift on transgender rights 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Occupation: Artist, musician, fashion designer, environmental activist, campaigner for world peace. Yoko Ono: happy 80th birthday! 2013-02-18T06:00:45Z

TV special, she sang a duet with African-American singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. Downtown? Petula Clark goes Down Farm 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

This is the key to how exceptional Kennedy, who died in 2000 at age 84, was as an activist — but the person she was remains elusive. What's missing from this book? Pioneering black feminist Flo Kennedy's blazing personality 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

She plays Laura Rose, a lawyer and community activist campaigning against racial discrimination. Gugu Mbatha-Raw: ‘It’s an actor’s duty to help the culture to evolve’ 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

The actress and outspoken activist led hundreds of supporters into L.A. Station to station: What to do and see along L.A.’s Expo Line 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

A civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

He was once an activist but settled on full-time composition, mostly from his minimalist, longtime home in Alaska, a place lovingly and eloquently documented in his books “Winter Music” and “Silences So Deep.” Review: Doleful ‘Vespers’ Pray for an Earth in Crisis 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Related: Emma Watson at Davos: 'Women need to be equal participants' The actor, last seen in the supernatural thriller Regression, told author and activist bell hooks about her intention during an interview in Paper magazine. Emma Watson to take a year off acting to focus on feminism 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

The Project’s activities included surveys of students, old people and members of religious groups; attempts to empower neighborhood activists; and competitions to design new parks for vacant lots. Books of The Times: ?The Neighborhood Project? by David Sloan Wilson - Review 2011-08-31T22:00:25Z

It follows Kiran and her parents, who live in a village in northeastern India, as they seek justice with the help of activists from Srijan Foundation, an advocacy organization. ‘To Kill a Tiger’ Review: The Survivor Who Refused to Be Shamed 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

Without Bieber to distract us, we would all become social activists. Poor Justin Bieber and his anger issues. He has become the King Joffrey of pop 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Bale was physically stopped by government-backed guards from visiting blind activist Chen Guangcheng who lives under house arrest in eastern China last week. China says Christian Bale should feel embarrassed 2011-12-21T11:59:08Z

But as presenters including Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Moore made clear, Mr. Belafonte has been an outspoken activist for racial justice since the Eisenhower years, when such a stand could prove career-threatening. Harry Belafonte Turns 95 With a Call for Social Justice 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

But it is deepened and rounded out by some remarkable supporting performances, especially a fantastic Jim Parsons as Tommy, a warmhearted activist volunteer. REVIEW: The Normal Heart 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

This year, the activist, actor and musician is nominated for his solo career, which started with the release of The Dream of the Blue Turtles and continued through last year’s The Last Ship. Lou Reed, The Smiths, Green Day, N.W.A. Nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2015 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

By her side in these struggles was the actor, author and activist Ossie Davis. Remembering Ruby Dee: A Life of Artistry and Activism 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The common perception that Southerners are stupid obscures the generations of progressive activists who have fought, sacrificed and sometimes died to make this a more hospitable and inclusive place. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

One was the signature headgear of Flo Kennedy, the firebrand feminist lawyer and activist. How Do You Tell the Story of Roe v. Wade? 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

“I think for many activists like myself, it symbolizes what we are willing to do to secure Liberty for ourselves and our posterity,” she told The Associated Press in an email. Declaration of Independence still inspires activists 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Baldwin claimed gay activists had "killed" his show, but acknowledged he had to take "some responsibility" for his actions. Alec Baldwin chat show cancelled 2013-11-28T10:21:33Z

"In Dubious Battle," one of Steinbeck's lesser-known books, follows a labor activist who tries to organize a strike among fruit pickers in Central California. James Franco will bring lesser-known John Steinbeck book to screen 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Security is tight; at the presentation for best in show last year, screened live on the BBC, two Peta activists invaded the arena to protest against extreme breeding, which no one talks about here. Crufts uncovered: ‘Dog people look like hairdressers with very small clients’ 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

In “Autofac,” would-be activists aim to wreck the maddeningly efficient automated delivery systems that keep order after “the Total Global Conflict” — self-determination means claiming our right to self-destruction, too. Review | ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ is a companion anthology to the new TV show 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Ebenstein, who said that most of the instructors at Morbid Anatomy’s popular taxidermy classes are animal rights activists and vegetarians, struck a note that was both matter-of-fact and philosophical. The Bride and Groom Are Kittens. At Death They Did Not Part. 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Reproductive justice activists assert that everyone has the right to have a child or — equally — to not have a child. How food insecurity affects people’s rights to choose whether or not to have children 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dubourg, the activist, said that because the birds are prized for their fat, they are kept in darkness for 21 days and are sometimes blinded, prompting them to gorge on millet and grapes. The Ortolan: A Tiny Bird as a French Cause Célèbre 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

For far too long we’ve lived with the comfort the movement’s sacred story provides, that the suffering of a single generation of activists — great as it was — redeemed the soul of America. African-Americans in the New Deal 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Cromwell and an activist from an animal-rights group also arrested were released from jail by Thursday afternoon. Actor Cromwell arrested at Wis. regents meeting 2013-02-07T21:14:09Z

The negatives have passed through the hands of family members, neighborhood activists, local photographers, librarians, archivists, and scholars. The Democratic Vision of a Lost and Found Early-Twentieth-Century Portrait Photographer 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

“Whistleblower” is now one word, generally unhyphenated, and defined by activists as someone who exposes wrongdoing, often from the inside at personal risk. Trump-Ukraine whistleblower is part of long tradition 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Queer activists were fighting to survive a plague in the face of a president who, like his predecessor, willfully ignored it. How the Religious Right Made Same-Sex Marriage a Gay Rights Crusade 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

Social activist movements have encouraged people to rethink how they move through the world — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. A new wave of comedians is exploring the anxieties of our Instagram age 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The changes are the result of a yearslong effort by performers and activists to draw attention to Asian stereotypes in “Nutcracker.” As ‘Nutcracker’ Returns, Companies Rethink Depictions of Asians 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

Lately, as Mary Ziegler, a law professor at Florida State, noted recently in the Times, activists and legislators are framing abortion as a zero-sum game. The Messiness of Reproduction and the Dishonesty of Anti-Abortion Propaganda 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

The film follows the woman’s awakening after she joins forces with a group of animal activists. ArtsBeat: New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2011-02-16T18:16:53Z

The musician is also a Unesco Goodwill Ambassador for Aids and a prominent peace activist. Singer Annie Lennox collects OBE 2011-06-28T14:05:16Z

She didn’t stop there: “They were political activists on behalf of the Frente” — the leftist political coalition formed by five guerrilla groups. The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

A judge on Thursday granted a request to change the name and gender of the 41-year-old writer, activist and reality TV star. Chaz Bono granted name, gender change 2010-05-06T18:10:00Z

“We don’t want to wait for the key from a gatekeeper who’s an old white guy,” said Gabrielle Burton-Hill, a community activist who recently joined the quest for a burial site. Should a Park Include a Burial Ground? Residents of Newburgh, N.Y., Can’t Agree. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Can we call you an activist now, or is that too strong? Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z

Sixteen years after his death, at a time when gay-rights activists are making progress nationally on issues such as same-sex marriage, why revisit Shepard? 'Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine' adds insight to tragedy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

And yet "Whale Wars" never forgets that there's more to these activists' lives than indignation. The whalers' worst nightmare sets sail again 2011-06-03T19:04:00Z

Jenner is far from the only one using private jets, but activists and environmental experts are increasingly concerned about the habits of the ultrarich. Kylie Jenner gets roasted for flaunting private jet in climate crisis 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Black activist groups thought they painted negative portraits of African-American masculinity. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

President Trump will have one positive legacy: His horrific actions have caused many first-time activists to say “I’m not going to take it anymore” and to do something about it. Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

I think for too long, especially in progressive circles, we label things as socially conscious, as activist. Hari Kondabolu: America’s smartest and funniest “mainstream comic” 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

That dusty sense of certainty is exactly what has long made the American Revolution feel like a safe zone for contemporary conservatives; contemporary Tea Party activists picked their name for a reason. Colonial Williamsburg: Where the Tea Party gets schooled 2013-04-07T16:00:00Z

Jane Fonda, 82, is an award-winning actor and a longtime activist. Jane Fonda on her climate-change activism: ‘I wanted to show that we have to leave our comfort zone’ 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The shift is an eco-friendly measure, he said, and not related to public pressure from activists. Canada Goose Will Stop Buying Fur — Sort Of 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

While the Cliburn was widely applauded in the arts world for allowing Russians to compete, the decision has alienated some Ukrainian activists and Texas residents. Russian and Ukrainian Pianists Meet in Texas at Cliburn Competition 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Local activists are pushing for more bike lanes and posting fliers reminding drivers to leave three feet of space for cyclists, he said. A 10-year-old boy had an idea to help poor people. Fourteen years and 8,000 bikes later, he’s still at it. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

There are also scientists, historians, legal advocates, community activists and others, all chosen at a moment in their careers when the award might make a difference. MacArthur Foundation Announces 26 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

As a satirist and activist, Guzzanti is almost the only person in the Italian media with the courage to attack Berlusconi directly. Peter Bradshaw's Cannes round-up 2010-05-16T21:05:00Z

And today, 30 years later, she speaks in the same measured tones, eschewing dramatic declarations — especially of victory — and sounding more like the soft-spoken academic she is than an activist. #MeToo Take 2? Movement’s strength hailed amid Cuomo fallout 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

In another example of life’s surprises, Ms. Drew appeared in a Gap ad in August, alongside a group of artists and activists, for a new denim line. Kimberly Drew Is a Curator of Black Art and Experiences 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Hisham Fageeh, who describes himself as a Saudi activist, rewrote Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” to call attention to Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving. 14 protest videos that went viral and changed the world 2014-02-25T14:00:00Z

"I became wiser after speaking with numerous Islamists, criminals and activists." That's globizness! An international celebrity scandal round-up 2013-04-26T12:00:00Z

America Ferrera, the actress and activist sitting next to Mrs. Clinton, looked stricken. Hillary Clinton and America Ferrera on Pain and Progress (and Hiking) 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Not because laid-off factory workers in rural Wisconsin matter more than young black activists in Oakland, but because the economic concerns of the former represent the baseline vision of the Democratic Party. 'The Once And Future Liberal' is a blistering critique of identity politics and a fractured left 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

She ended up as a political activist, defending her position in the contest by attacking the motives of naysayers. | Bristol Dances in Circles 2010-11-24T12:08:00Z

The two approaches had advanced furthest in California, New York, Illinois, Hawaii and Michigan, although activists in a handful of other states, especially Colorado, Iowa and New Jersey, were not far behind. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z

In a recent interview, Ms. Zink was asked why she was satirizing young political activists. Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

These were activist Max Beck’s parting words to my Psychology of Women course in 2005. Sexual assault and harassment in the United States are all too common, even before Donald Trump 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

“Anyone who tells you they saw this coming is just blowing smoke,” said L. Brent Bozell, the conservative activist and columnist whose group, For­America, supported Brat via social media but didn’t contribute money. Dave Brat was mostly ignored by political reporters

While she is mainly an actress, poet and activist, she studied traditional dance in Rwanda as a teenager; it remains her great love for the way that it represents so much of her culture. DanceAfrica Celebrates Rwanda and a ‘Living Sense of Grace’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

And so there is something slightly odd about Global Citizen, an annual anti-poverty celebration that alternates pop performances with speeches by politicians, actors, and activists expressing support for various United Nations development goals. “Making Change” at the Global Citizen Music Festival 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Thalberg was indeed an activist for the Socialist Party while growing up in New York City. ‘Mank’ and Politics: What Really Happened in 1934 California 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

The images spurred deep emotions among those opposed to the controversial practice, including prominent animal activist and Hollywood actor Ricky Gervais, who tweeted about giraffes being endangered at the time the pictures went viral. Hunter whose giraffe photo went viral says she's 'absolutely' still hunting: 'I am proud of that giraffe' 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

Catholic antiabortion activists published photos of unborn fetuses, labeled abortion “infanticide” and likened it to the eugenic practices of fascist Germany. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z

In Paris, revolution rages through the streets, led by feminists, workers and student activists calling for change. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Shark conservationists and marine activists have taken issue with Discovery's bread-and-butter event, claiming false advertisement of sharks' true natures. 'Shark Week': A Brief History 2010-08-02T08:00:00Z

So now DiMarco finds himself a published author, the latest in a growing list of distinctions that include model, activist, and ballroom dancer. In ‘Deaf Utopia,’ Nyle DiMarco Dreams of Integrating the Deaf and Hearing Worlds 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

The son of an escaped slave, Robeson led an extraordinary life as a lawyer, actor, singer and activist who supported causes such as the Republican in the Spanish Civil War and unemployed Welsh miners. Steve McQueen to Make Paul Robeson Biopic 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Rick Bass is an environmental activist and the author, most recently, of “The Traveling Feast.” Three Volumes of Nature Photography Take Us Back to Earth’s Innocent Roots 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

World leaders, climate campaigners and activists from around the world are due to attend the U.N. conference, which was postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Queen Elizabeth II to attend UN climate change conference 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Today a civil association created by prominent female artists, activists and writers who supported Muñoz’s vision receives public donations to provide the remaining necessities. Tough love: An intimate look at Mexico City’s retired (and semi-retired) sex workers 2014-04-22T22:30:00Z

The filmmaker, raconteur and activist Michael Moore remains staunch, but his solo performance is yielding its Broadway berth. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The 2017 screening took place right before a march by white supremacists in Charlottesville led activists around the country to call for the removal of statues honoring Confederate leaders. Perspective | HBO Max isn’t censoring ‘Gone With the Wind.’ It’s reframing it. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

She also married and had, in quick succession, two daughters, one of whom, Michele Wallace, is now a noted art historian, and a collaborator with Ringgold on activist projects. Faith Ringgold’s Path of Maximum Resistance 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

“But her voice as a filmmaker, her tenacity as a director and fearlessness as an activist is what I admire most about her.” Barbra Streisand’s Not Leaving Yet; Set to Appear at Tribeca Talks 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The hostility of activists and other students contributed as well. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

In this contemporary telling of the story, Mary is a social activist who runs a shelter for women. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z

It also features one activist, Jeffrey McCall, who identifies as previously transgender and still pushes the ideas the others believed in. ‘Pray Away’ Review: Atoning for an Anti-Gay Stance 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

In 1970, a group of Aboriginal activists spent time in the United States studying race relations The following year, still others established the Brisbane chapter of the Black Panther Party. Two Artists, Continents Apart, and a Shared Language of Struggle 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

Michelle is also a budding activist, who wants folks to “unlearn normal,” and embrace being an outcast. Best empty theaters: the 10 best films without an audience in 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Chinese artist and provocateur Ai Weiwei relishes the symbolism of displaying his portraits of political dissidents and activists in Washington at a time when human rights and liberties are eroding around the world. Ai Weiwei on creating political art in the Trump era: ‘Be part of the change’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The group of 28 activists and two journalists — collectively known as the Arctic 30 — are awaiting trial in detention centers in St Petersburg for protesting at an oil-drilling rig in the Barents sea. Paul McCartney Writes Letter To Vladimir Putin In Support Of Greenpeace Activists 2013-11-15T14:39:03Z

As a Japanese woman artist and peace activist, she frequently confronted gender and racial bias. Yoko Ono’s prophetic vision of self-care 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

Attacked by politicians and some activist groups for its portrayal of torture in the decade-long hunt for bin Laden, the film is being promoted in Oscar campaigns as "the most talked-about movie of the year." History alive and kicking at 2013 Oscars 2013-02-18T12:05:15Z

How the police deployed official violence to punish and intimidate activists. America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Then he brought on a 19-year-old Al Sharpton, already a civil rights activist, who presented Brown with an award for his music. Don Cornelius took 'Soul Train' on pioneering trip 2012-02-01T20:32:12Z

There are passionate, knowledgeable experts at the margins of this film: ecologists, activists and divers. ‘Fin’ Review: Eli Roth Wants to Save the Sharks 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

“He was trying to be Raymond Chandler the activist, rather than Raymond Chandler the detective story writer.” Unearthed Raymond Chandler Story Rebukes U.S. Health Care System 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

One evening in late March, about 20 activists gathered at a cafe in Dupont Circle to discuss their campaign strategy for an upcoming election, in which thousands of Washington-area residents are eligible to cast ballots. How French expats in Washington are preparing for an election back home 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

A nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

He spoke to Reuters days after dozens of anti-fur activists disrupted British fashion house Burberry’s show at the event and heckled celebrities including rapper Stormzy and model Naomi Campbell as they arrived. Fashion doesn't need to kill animals: British designer MacDonald 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

But something tells me that any smart activist who looks closely at the airport protests will see something of a blueprint. Building Type: The airport as public square and protest central 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The British were anxious about the fact that another copy of the cables had apparently fallen into the hands of Heather Brooke, a London-based American journalist and freedom of information activist. WikiLeaks: Strained relation, accusation ? and crucial revelations 2011-01-31T20:00:01Z

After graduating from Brown University, Richards began her career as a labor organizer and activist, working with garment workers, janitors and hotel employees. The abortion rights movement is bolder than it’s been in years. That’s Cecile Richards’s plan. 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

To get up to speed she hit the archives, visited the state and spoke to dozens of Texans — politicians, demographers, activists and historians. Books of The Times: ‘As Texas Goes ’ by Gail Collins 2012-07-02T21:01:09Z

At the chrysanthemum show, the horticultural society’s executive director, Tom Underwood, and American Dahlia Society activist Harry Rissetto made presentations on ways to revive membership. US flower growers fear bloom is off the hobby 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Lisa, training to be a teacher, angers her parents by turning into an ecological activist. Greenland - review 2011-02-02T00:52:28Z

As the historian Ramachandra Guha emphasizes in “Gandhi Before India,” his career as a political activist and thinker was shaped largely by his experiences in South Africa. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

“His work is completely dedicated to his life as an activist, and he has been at the forefront of this for several decades,” Ms. Fernando said. At Frieze London, a Web of Art Circling the World 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

Sean Penn, the celebrated actor and activist, will release his debut novel next year, a “darkly humurous” tale titled “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff.” Sean Penn will publish his first novel, 'Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,' next year 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Mari Varsányi, a member of a Jewish social justice activist group, Oy Vey Acts, said the museum may have provided too many justifications for failures to resist persecution, deportations and murder. Nuance Is Difficult When It Involves Nazis, a Museum Finds 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

Max Murphy, who was raised vegan from birth, is an animal activist. It’s only meatless meals for some kids who have a passion for animals 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

The activists on both sides who knew her found her charming — and found her maddening. Perspective | ‘Jane Roe,’ from Roe v. Wade, made a stunning deathbed confession. Now what? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Like, if I'm going to a television show, they're going to put "activist" as my lower third, but I don't even identify as an activist. Michelle Obama & Breonna Taylor portraitist on Black artists: "We've been here all along" 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

The Town Hall Affair The Wooster Group stages its re-creation of a landmark 1971 panel on feminism that included several notable authors and activists. L.A. theater openings, March 19-26: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The plan infuriated some—Charles Lindbergh, the aviation entrepreneur and activist, thought America should keep out of world affairs—but this financial help was crucial to Britain’s sustaining the war effort. FDR for beginners 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

JK, who left school at 16 to become a professional skateboarder, is a self-styled political activist who spent two weeks sleeping at the Occupy Melbourne protest. New band of the day: Teenage Mothers (No 1,530) 2013-06-11T14:38:32Z

America is not actually all that different, except in the fantasies of some White liberals and admirably idealistic activists. Perspective | The Philip Guston controversy is turning artists against the National Gallery 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Starr struggles with what to say, and to whom, and begins, with the help of her activist lawyer, to push back against the media’s portrayal of Khalil as a thug and drug dealer. Three books to inspire young readers to bravery 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

The activist push to defund the police in many cities, for example, “was stopped by local Black citizens, who wanted better, not less, policing.” Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Today’s activists are bringing the passionately debated procedure into the light, encouraging women to talk openly about their abortions and giving the movement an unapologetic human face. The abortion rights movement is bolder than it’s been in years. That’s Cecile Richards’s plan. 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The concert itself featured projections on its set of veterans, activists and average people who died in wars, protests and attacks on civilians. Pink Floyd co-founder says new 'Wall' an anti-war protest film 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Examples of the sort of action he is talking about include “participation in social movements, collaborating with activists and nongovernmental organizations, advising lawyers, writing affidavits and producing expert reports.” Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

In response, more than 70 progressive groups and activists signed an open letter to CBS and Global Citizen critiqueing the premise. "The Activist" implosion: How a reality show working for greater good became a capitalist nightmare 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

“How to Let Go of the World” is an activist travelogue on a vastly greater scale, and highly engaging purely as adventure. It’s too late to halt climate change and our society is doomed — but wait, that’s the good news 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

The legendary performer, who has evolved into a tireless activist, will appear at the Moore Theatre Saturday. Harry Belafonte still singing song of social justice 2013-01-14T21:16:10Z

Video of the protest existed but has now been taken down Outside there were many more activists staging a mock auction selling off public services including libraries, education and the NHS. Anti-cuts protesters hijack ?44m contemporary art sale 2011-02-16T15:04:47Z

Outside film-making, Masoud is a prolific writer and activist, currently at No 31 in the Muslim 5oo list of influential people. Film based on Christchurch mosque shooting in the works 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

In some 400 pages this book provides thumbnail sketches of more than 140 alternative spaces and related organizations, including the artist-run restaurant Food, Bomb magazine and the activist group Gran Fury. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

As part of that, she attends with activist Ai-jen Poo, who organizes immigrant worker women and is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Golden Globes 2018: the red carpet, the winners, the speeches – live! 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

But he was also a TV star, he was a thinker, he was a philosopher, he was a political activist. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Opposition activists have called for an impromptu protest to be held on 19 August. Madonna supports Pussy Riot 2012-08-07T22:28:23Z

Nevertheless, activists remain unhappy about Gehry’s approach to the project, preferring to return the tributary to its original state. ‘What Would I Do?’ Frank Gehry, 92, Is Too Busy to Retire 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

This activist persona is a departure from the fully realized human Isaac as he had originally been written. What that "Sex Education" disability story could learn from reality TV 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z

He has cultivated another life as a politician, activist and advocate for world peace, and has served in the Japanese parliament. T Magazine: Island Records 2012-11-16T18:00:23Z

“So when I arrived in academic life as somebody who is a producer, a strategist and an activist, I thought, ‘Well, I’d like to do all of those things at American University.’ American University’s Laughter Lab is an incubator for marginalized comedians 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Today, new activists carry the torch for racial justice. Protests have long been a powerful way to bring about change 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

“Preoccupied,” however, centers on young activists and depicts a snapshot of the Umbrella Movement, the 2014 pro-democracy uprising against Beijing’s political influence. Review: ‘Hong Kong Trilogy,’ Captures the Voices of the People 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

One of her best-known works, Burger’s Daughter concerns the life of a young daughter of South African anti-apartheid activists and how politics affects the personal. Nadine Gordimer: 5 Essential Reads from the Award-Winning Author 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to be an ally with the great female activists who are pushing for change in the film industry today.” 'It's a mistresspiece!': the 14-hour film about forgotten female directors 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Famed for such hit songs as "Hurts So Good," "Jack and Diane" and "Small Town," he is also a political activist who campaigned for President Barack Obama. Rocker John Mellencamp likens Internet to A-bomb 2010-08-18T07:20:00Z

Kate Harrad is a bi activist and editor of Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain, a collection of essays exploring all forms of bisexuality. The pansexual revolution: how sexual fluidity became mainstream 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

He is the thoroughly decent intelligence officer who finds himself falling for Rachel Weisz’s passionate political activist. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

All of these activists focused on jobs, education, housing and, ultimately, freedom. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

The left-wing activists and actress has been a longtime supporter of Sanders and has harshly criticized Clinton in the past. Bernie Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon says she may not vote for Hillary Clinton: “Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Scientists are conventionally apolitical figures, but these days, nutrition researchers write editorials and books that resemble liberal activist tracts, fizzing with righteous denunciations of “big sugar” and fast food. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

My Name is Rachel Corrie, based on the writings of the American peace activist who died in Gaza in 2003, opens at Mull theatre Tobermory on Saturday before moving to the on Tuesday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-01T16:28:58Z

As if to justify the reference to sabotage in the title, there are examples of activist, or activist-minded art. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

This activist persona is a departure from the fully realized human Isaac as he had originally been written. What that "Sex Education" disability story could learn from reality TV 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z

And for the past 20 years or so, there has been a campaign by local whale activists to return Lolita to her native waters. Free Lolita! The remarkable story of a remarkable whale held captive for four decades 2014-04-06T10:58:00Z

And a trans activist tells me she fears for her “body and life, which are now on the line.” ‘Are we safe?’ The LGBT community wonders what the future holds. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Recent highlights include Matthew Darbyshire's satirical take on British design and sound art by German activists Ultra Red. Nothing to see here - beyond the blockbuster exhibitions 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z

She also pointed to how the federal government was, at the time, waging armed conflict against Native activists in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. From political protest to perceived slights, 7 reasons why actors have rejected their awards 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z

“Why let facts, and the idea that Lolita is doing well in the pool, stand in the way of the activists’ stance?” Free Lolita! The remarkable story of a remarkable whale held captive for four decades 2014-04-06T10:58:00Z

Here they met another woman who was quietly changing history one day at a time, Elizabeth Gurney Fry, “the angel of Newgate,” a mother of 11 and a radical social activist. Motherlode: Parenting in a Prison Colony 2011-04-08T16:53:27Z

Only weeks after thousands of Venetians took to the streets for a peaceful demonstration against mass tourism, activists in Spain launched a more violent protest. Heatwaves and airport queues make for holiday season from hell 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

It made sense then that the activists in the civil rights movement were, visually, the antithesis of hippies. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

A new exhibition featuring the life of activist Helen Keller opens in New York City next month. NYC exhibit tells story of activist Helen Keller 2010-04-13T11:46:00Z

Poet, novelist and civil rights activist Maya Angelou died in May at the age of 86, prompting US President Barack Obama to hail her "one of the brightest lights of our time". Famous faces who died in 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Pip moves from Oakland to Bolivia to be an intern for Andreas Wolf, a German internet activist who runs the Sunlight Project, a non-profit that exposes political and social misdeeds. Being Franzen’s friends 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Tyson doesn’t call himself an atheist, he calls himself an agnostic, since he associates the word “atheist” with “activist atheist,” and generally resists being identified with the atheist movement or any other “ism.” Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z

Perhaps, if these books rally enough young activists to say no to fear and despair, future Politkovskayas and Anielewiczes will be able to lead long and happy lives. Profiles in Courage 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

For these activists, archival work is not a neutral act, but a form of political disruption. How the “guerrilla archivists” saved history – and are doing it again under Trump 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

At a cake-cutting ceremony on Saturday, politicians carrying posters of Malala jostled for space with civil society activists before marching to the press club along potholed streets piled high with rubbish. Malala becomes lightning rod for anger over neglect of her hometown 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

Even so, it remains largely unspoiled, and activists are working hard to keep it that way. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Baraka, who died last week at 79, passed through so many different phases, from middle-class kid in Newark to aspiring Beat poet to founder of the Black Arts movement to leftist activist to academic. Questlove Reflects on Amira Baraka 2014-01-13T00:22:25Z

I read that you teamed up with fellow activist Jane Fonda. Hurrah for Live Performances 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

In March, it was moved to an undisclosed location, where it took the form of a flag emblazoned with the project’s title, but alt-right activists defaced the exhibition. Shia LaBeouf’s Trump art project shut down one day after moving to Liverpool 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

On a trip last year to Michigan, he went to Temple Israel in West Bloomfield with Marseille Allen, a local activist. Doug Emhoff paused his career for his wife Kamala Harris’s aspirations — and became the campaign’s ‘secret weapon’ 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

The designers also looked for inspiration in archival images of Josephine Baker, the Black entertainer and activist. Simone Biles Is a Showgirl 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

He also visited Peaches Restaurant, founded in 1961, where freedom riders and civil rights activists including Martin Luther King Jr. ate. Film explores African-Americans' unhealthy "soul food" habit 2012-12-27T17:01:21Z

“We are all the beneficiaries of these four activists and those who joined them,” said Malone-France. An Architectural Landmark Plays Host to a Stylish Summer Affair 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

This seems to happen so often, people complain/point fingers at women who speak up in ways that don’t match their image of an “ideal” activist. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

There is a movement among activists in the party to adopt a so-called "marriage equality" plank in the official platform this summer. Obama declares support for gay marriage 2012-05-09T19:36:00Z

"He has been a warrior on the good side of the battlefield of social justice," said actress and fellow activist Susan Sarandon, who presented him with the Oscar. Oscar in hand, Harry Belafonte exhorts Hollywood on human rights 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

“The problem we keep coming up against is channels of communication,” said Sinéad Burke, an inclusivity activist who consults with numerous brands and platforms, including Juniper. Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Already a pacifist and member of the Labour Party, she was delighted to meet with Gandhi as well as politicians and anticolonial activists. The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Only in the past year has the limelight begun to shine on Robinson: Her role as a voting rights activist is central to the Oscar-nominated movie “Selma.” Fifty years later, spotlight shines on civil rights icon Amelia Boynton Robinson 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The surreal, alienating aspects of virtual communication are even more difficult for neurodivergent people, who may need more time and space for processing, said Héctor Ramírez, a disability activist with autism and a psychiatric disability. When the World Shut Down, They Saw It Open 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Less than two years later, Lyman founded the Fort Hill Community, a group of musicians and activists and dropouts who lived in a series of connected homes in the Roxbury section of Boston. 1968 Revisited: A Boston Commune and a Van Morrison Classic 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Best known for her small abstract paintings, she comes through here with a floor-to-ceiling semiabstract image of the wise, activist animals of the title. At the Queens Museum, Home and the World 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Climate activists point out that even biodegradable balloons are slow to decompose, and popular “balloon releases” are just a form of photogenic littering. How Balloons Blew Up 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Driving to their next meeting, the activist hears a phone ringing in the back of her car. ‘It’s our problem’: Brazilian drama brings Amazon rainforest battle to screen 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

One sketch features liberal activists self-importantly trying to find an adequate response to the disappearances. A Cabaret in Hungary Asks a Horrific Question: What if Jews Vanished? 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

The Seattle City Council’s unanimous vote last week to rename Columbus Day “Indigenous People’s Day” had Native American activists cheering and Italian heritage groups up in arms. What does it take to create a holiday? It’s all politics. (But Stevie Wonder can help.)

Some activists in the museum field are calling for Mr. Black’s removal. Amid Epstein Revelations, Leon Black Remains Chairman of MoMA 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

But just as she prepares readers to plunge down this rabbit hole with her, she shifts her focus to a narrow circle of activists. Hustling in Flushing: A Chinese Immigrant Couple Struggles to Decode Life in Queens 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

This week, activist Aaron Jackson and a group of volunteers descended on the town to paint a house Jackson purchased a few months ago. It’s a hard time to be a homophobe 2013-03-20T15:40:00Z

Samuel L. Jackson co-stars as a crusader based on a real human-rights activist. Movie Listings for July 15-21 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

A civil rights activist, she was the only woman to speak at the 1963 March on Washington before Martin Luther King’s famed “I Have a Dream” speech. Black artist Josephine Baker honored at France’s Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

But antiabortion activists have circulated the false idea that the Affordable Care Act will change the status quo. Michigan lawmakers want to force women to take out “special” insurance for abortion 2013-12-03T18:27:00Z

The author, a civil rights activist, traces the roots of political dissatisfaction among many Black voters and examines the ways she believes Democratic Party has abandoned them. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Everything is just more beautiful after going through this horrible year,” said Monica Barrett, a real estate appraiser and environmental activist, gesturing at a patch of tulips striped in psychedelic scarlet, yellow and orange hues. Are There More Tulips Than Usual This Year? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Videos show the activists dousing one of the artist’s works, “Grainstacks,” with a thick yellow substance that covered the painting’s warm red hues. Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Painting 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

NPR's president and CEO, Vivian Schiller, resigned last month after hidden camera footage from a conservative activist revealed a fellow executive there referring to the tea party movement as racist. PBS head: Public broadcasting funding intact 2011-04-13T20:17:31Z

Members of Congress will hear next week from hundreds of activists who were already planning to gather in Washington on Monday and Tuesday to lobby for the arts. Republicans Start Lining Up to Fight for the N.E.A. and N.E.H. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

A jailed Jesuit priest and longtime Indian tribal rights activist. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Probably fewer remember that he was a civil-rights activist, at the front line at demonstrations against injustice. 'My Song': Harry Belafonte speaks his mind 2011-11-22T21:05:04Z

The “Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies” series returns with the 2013 documentary “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs,” about the Chinese-American philosopher, writer and activist, at 7 p.m. Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language, race and more 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

It called for this war monument to be enclosed in a latticelike structure that would allow the public to see its friezes up close while encouraging peace activists to gather. A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

It is not “exhaustive, activist or comprehensive in any way.” Kara Walker: Art Can’t Solve the Nation’s Racial Problems 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

This year, the American Economic Liberties Project, as part of an activist group calling itself the Break Up Ticketmaster Coalition, said its research showed that fees added an average of 32 percent. Live Music Is Roaring Back. But Fans Are Reeling From Sticker Shock. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Salaam, an activist and motivational speaker, recently published a young adult novel based on his experiences. Yusef Salaam writing memoir about his wrongful imprisonment 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

But given Ms. Scott Thomas’s new role, her comments highlight the complexities that may occur when actors are presented as activists. Kristin Scott Thomas on Playing a Different Kind of Part 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

A coalition of miners, physicians and activists known as the Black Lung Association began pressing for comprehensive reforms, including new programs for workers’ compensation. America Has Mistreated Its Coal Miners. Here’s Their Fight for Justice. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

But online isn’t the only place activists are waging war against terrorism. Trevor Noah mocks Fox News, Geraldo Rivera for insane idea that ISIS is taking over Amazon drones 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Zhuang’s own activist credentials are never in doubt. A Chinese Revolutionary, Reinventing Himself in American Exile 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

When a video of one such hearing is uploaded on YouTube, Dave becomes a populist symbol, championed by half-baked activists everywhere. ‘Hits’: Satire of our fame-obsessed culture misses mark 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Glaude astutely calls these young black women and their generation of young black activists "unprecedented." 'Democracy in Black' is a bracing a call to action for African Americans 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It was then that activists like Ms. Sherkat and Ms. Ebadi employed any available religious latitude to challenge the status quo and improve the legal circumstances of women. Nazila Fathi’s ‘The Lonely War’ Is a Memoir of Iran 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

She calls herself a “fashion activist” and said she considers it her duty to nurture unknown designers. The Stylist B. Akerlund on Her Looks for Beyoncé and Other Stars 2013-12-19T01:04:06Z

As art director he oversaw satiric covers critical of the C.I.A. and opposing the Vietnam War, and he persuaded Norman Rockwell to contribute a portrait of the peace activist and philosopher Bertrand Russell. Dugald Stermer, Illustrator and Ramparts Art Director, Dies at 74 2011-12-08T04:57:38Z

George Takei, who starred in the original “Star Trek” TV show and is now a vigorous activist, put it simply: A so-called Saturday morning on Twitter 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Israeli activist Tali Shapiro, who supports the Boycott from Within movement, tweeted “It’s US government policy that’s keep Israel’s apartheid alive, now. Still unacceptable, no?” Steven Van Zandt’s Israel gaffe: Musician gets basic facts wrong in Twitter rant. It is apartheid — South African activists agree 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

In a country where the Catholic church retains a strong influence, anti-abortion activists remain a powerful lobby group. Chile's Bachelet takes on conservatives with plan to ease abortion ban 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

But on the left, different flavors of racial, gender, economic and climate progressives, not to mention animal rights activists, often magnify disagreements rather than emphasize coalition. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

His political consciousness was shaped to a great degree by his upbringing: his father was a political science professor and his mother by turns, a trade union activist, a labour lawyer and an environmental lawyer. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

They both began their careers as community organizers and activists in Chicago. The American’s dilemma: Jane Addams, Barack Obama & the urge to help others 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

The memorial to the slain ex-Beatle and peace activist includes a mosaic donated by the city of Naples, Italy. John Lennon's 70th celebrated in Central Park 2010-10-09T08:46:00Z

This summer, it will also host a juice bar run by youth food activists from Baldwin Village. A show toying with unexpected ideas of color rises at the Underground Museum 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

But he was also a committed Black activist. When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

In the afternoon, a young group of activists placed a large silk-screen tribute to Wallace, his face and his initials, in the empty lot next to his family home. One week in the life of Philadelphia: A death, protests, the pandemic and election mayhem 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Or maybe, as many former activists mentioned this weekend in D.C., enough time has passed that the post-traumatic stress that marked the fight has finally begun to subside. Can AIDS activism battle the Tea Party? 2012-07-24T15:15:00Z

But they generated some media attention, and they drew activists and observers not just from Israel but from around the world. The view on the ground 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

“They don’t necessarily see a career path. They can get burned out and a little exhausted,” says Nicole Johnson, executive director of the activist organization WeNeedDiverseBooks. Missteps lead publishing industry to review diversity effort 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

I think that it makes a lot of sense in the work that I do as an activist and as an artist. “Porn stars are the gladiators of the entertainment industry” 2014-03-15T23:00:00Z

It shows papers and records of Susan B. Anthony and Mary Church Terrell, an African-American activist who championed racial equality. Where to Celebrate Women’s Rights This Year 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Panettiere will accept the Futures Award, which recognizes younger entertainers for their potential to be environmental activists. Damon, Panettiere Get Environmental Media Awards 2013-08-26T19:57:51Z

It was the respectable, even Republican, advocate for women’s health, including reproductive services; the leaders of the National Abortion Rights Action League were the activist agitators. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z

She also expressed gratitude toward those who made her aware of her duty, saying, “It ultimately made the show better and made me stronger as a feminist and an activist and a thinker.” Lena Dunham Addresses 'Girls' Racial Backlash 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

A fight that erupts outside a CeaseFire office, causing Ms. Matthews to charge outside — she wedges herself among a cluster of raging, circling men and women — shows the potential danger of such activist commitment. | 'The Interrupters': Confronting a Plague of Violence 2011-07-28T22:26:47Z

A new picture, in this case a moving picture, will premiere on HBO on Dec. 8, remembering the writer, activist and critic herself. Watch the Trailer for the Upcoming HBO Documentary Regarding Susan Sontag 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Irrespective of Roth’s intentions, Death Wish still seems likely to be embraced by right-wing activists in the run-up to its November release, if only because it has already enraged so many liberal commentators. Death Wish: is the Bruce Willis remake an alt-right fantasy? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

In 2013 the University of Chicago tore down an apartment complex in which Reagan had lived as a preschooler, despite calls from a group of community activists to turn it into “a museum and center.” They’re trying to deify Ronald Reagan: Inside the right-wing plot to turn the Gipper into a modern-day God 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ai said that the migrant crisis resonated with his family history; his father, the Chinese poet and activist Ai Qing, spent the first 20 years of his son’s life in labor camps. Ai Weiwei Melds Art and Activism in Shows About Displacement 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Back then, his father was an Anglican preacher at a local church whose boss was Cape Town Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the legendary anti-apartheid activist. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But he did present the other side of the debate with two returning characters, the community activist team of Jack and Becky. Jimmy Kimmel continues to wage war on anti-vaccination movement 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

He was an activist, she was a political scientist; he was savvy and strategic, she was blunt and didn’t care whether people liked her or not. She loved Marion Barry, she married him — but don’t call Cora Masters Barry a widow

Climate activists announced plans to protest the Museum of Modern Art’s fund-raiser on Tuesday to draw attention to its board’s ties to to the fossil fuel industry. What Does It Take to Run a Museum? The Job Description Is Changing. 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

Her shared last name is just a coincidence; her father was a struggling carpenter before he died, and her grandmother was an activist who detested the lumber business. Review | ‘Greenwood’ is an absorbing saga of families and trees — and how they survive 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

A billboard mounted on the museum’s west facade lists a series of words, including Amend, Abolish, Redress, Repair, Unionize — actions that activists say need to be done to address racial disparities. Beyond the Book Club, An Artist’s To-Do List 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

He added, “They were educators and activists who created content to educate people on the African diaspora.” Black Can Be Even More Beautiful 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

After British courts dismissed their appeals, the activists turned to the European Court of Human Rights in the French city of Strasbourg, arguing that their detention was disproportionate and unjustified. European court rejects activists’ UK royal wedding complaint 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

And here, perhaps, is a lesson for contemporary activists. Art Review: ?Gran Fury: Read My Lips? at 80WSE 2012-02-02T23:21:10Z

I got some activist friends together in my living-room, and we came up with the idea of V-Day: an international movement to end violence against women and girls. How we made: The Vagina Monologues 2013-02-04T17:48:44Z

Ms. Kim, 52, was inspired by a Korean feminism wave of the 1980s and is unique in today’s community of activists, who are much younger. 4 Stops for a Women-Focused Visit to Seoul 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

She told me that a young generation of globalized politicians and activists long to move beyond the petty concerns of their elders to a post-racial future. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z

They have also made films about the legal scholar and activist Pauli Murray, and Gabby Giffords, the former congresswoman. For a Documentary on Intersex Lives, a Director Champions the Power of Activism 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

Steiner noted how many of the activists returned to their communities and organized programs that helped countless people, a spirit that he believes lives on. The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Among the activists who heard them, Lavender Country helped galvanize the Seattle LGBTQ+ community organizing in Stonewall’s wake, while brashly challenging country music stereotypes. WA’s pioneering gay country band Lavender Country releases first new album in 50 years 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Eastern time, Youth Pride, a free virtual event, will feature recorded presentations for teenagers by singers, rappers, dancers, D.J.s and community activists. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

The meeting brought together foundation officers and local activists who want the foundation to guarantee jobs to locals. Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

There are a proliferation of feminist and activist film festivals in the UK, as well as diverse programming groups who curate one-off screenings and seasons. Angry young women: how radical, female film-makers defined the spirit of '68 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

He had grown up poor in the Bronx, the son of Communist activists who struggled to survive the Depression but believed their politics would ultimately rule the world. Sol Yurick, Novelist, Dies at 87 2013-01-09T15:49:27Z

In 1984, when I was starting my journalism career, I met writer, teacher and political activist Amiri Baraka in a bookstore on Chicago’s south side. When the 1967 Detroit riot came home 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

She shows you that NAACP, from its inception, understood how activism assisted litigation and how litigation could forward the cause of activists. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

The school’s decision has drawn backlash, with artists, gay rights activists and the ensemble’s fans denouncing the college for homophobia and discrimination. Florida College Cancels Concert Over Gay Singer, Drawing Backlash 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

The writer and activist often starts her day with this southern US favourite. Breakfast of champions: Alice Walker’s grits with bacon 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Part of the issue, I think, is that many antiabortion activists think of an “abortion” as a murderous procedure that a bad woman has when she wants to kill her baby. Perspective | One month in, abortion bans are hell on Earth 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

It also includes a conversation with the filmmakers and Mayan women activists from the film, followed by a reception and live music concert. “It is interesting to consider what makes a film ‘controversial,'”says Leah Sapin, who programs the New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Famed poet, author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou died Wednesday at 86. Watch the World Thank Maya Angelou 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

If streaming is the platform of choice for a new generation of conservative activists, Peck says, “I think Ben Shapiro is the brightest star.” The battle in your ear buds: The bros of political podcasting and their quest to reinvent punditry 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

A subplot about militant animal activists lends the wispy story some plot fodder, but a shocking revelation about Ginger’s past is more than the uneven film can bear. Review: ‘Funny Bunny,’ About a Trio of Outsiders 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

He, along with other activists, pressured the newly established Museum of Modern Art to show American modernists, not just European ones. ‘Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel,’ by Annie Cohen-Solal 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

A leading human rights activist in Argentina will finally meet the grandson torn from her family 36 years ago when he was kidnapped by agents of the country's right-wing dictatorship. Argentina rights activist to meet kidnapped grandson after 36 years 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

It is used by activists, in HR training in some of the world’s largest corporations – and is at the heart of the rightwing backlash against identity politics. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Local activists provided Human Rights Watch with a list of 62 dead members from the family. 50 marathons in 50 days 2012-06-06T22:24:00Z

But Mr. Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, said he hoped that his firsthand account of the struggle for equality and the power of nonviolent civil disobedience would continue to inspire a new generation of activists. ‘March’ Graphic Novel Revisits Civil Rights Movement in Rich Detail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

For much of her life she was an influential community activist, designing innovative neighborhood arts programs and encouraging others to commit to art. Ignored in Life, Bernice Bing Is Discovered as Museums Rewrite History 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Well, not exactly bell hooks’ number, but a generic number that will serve up an automated quote from the writer and activist through text or voicemail. Don’t want to give that guy your phone number? Let him talk to bell hooks instead! 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Person, living or dead, you admire most: Mom earned three votes, just beating “brother” and civil rights activist Reverend Martin Luther King Junior. May Class of KidsPost: Second-graders from Waverly Elementary in Ellicott City 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

The spokesman declined to say how many activists received the orders. Israel restricts right-wing Jewish activists for Pope's visit 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

But activists says that by containing stolen artefacts it represents a continuation of colonialism. Belgium's Africa Museum reopens to confront its colonial demons 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

A banjo player, singer and political activist, Seeger wrote his own songs but also revived and adapted traditional folk songs and verses and popularized them: songs like “If I Had a Hammer,” ”Turn! Seeger tribute at Newport honors traditional folk 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Soon after, one of the children, working as an activist in the West Bank, is killed by an Israeli soldier. 14 Books Coming in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Locally, protesters have voiced support for Miranda, including the activist known as Sister Leona, who did so topless and interviewed with Vice. A topless photo ruined this teacher's career. Now she's speaking out 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

In one clip, resurfaced over the weekend, Rogan’s guest, conservative political activist Charles C. Johnson, raises the idea that Black people may have a gene that gives them a “proclivity to violence.” Perspective | Joe Rogan is too powerful to keep acting as if he’s just a regular guy chopping it up 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

In addition, other sources tell me, certain consumer activist groups raised concerns that the change would allow unsafe drugs to make it to market. How Big Pharma Undermined Medical Innovation for Financial Gain 2012-02-16T00:22:16Z

The naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams fights to preserve her Utah roots by buying up parcels of federal public land at auction to prevent the oilmen from drilling there. Women Write of Home, and a Woman’s Place in It 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

In 2012 when people heard that I was French or American, Syrian fighters and activists took me for a brother; France was one of the countries sheltering the opposition and helping activists communicate. Don’t fall for ISIS’ trap: A French national pleads for tolerance 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The movement has its eye very much on the next generation of anti-abortion activists. Young women were the "foot soldiers" of the anti-abortion movement and "morally bankrupt" Trump 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

This gives activists much greater leverage to demand oversight, wage increases, organizing rights and effective safety standards. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z

Just last year, activist and critic Astra Taylor covered much of the same ground in "The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age." Andrew Keen rages against the machine in 'The Internet Is Not the Answer' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Human rights activists and some Poland specialists say the party is fomenting homophobia to fire up its conservative base ahead of the election. Pride parades in Poland prove flashpoint ahead of general election 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

He was a political activist known for his opposition to the recent war in Iraq and his call for policies to fight global warming. Oscar-nominated star Pete Postlethwaite dies at 64 2011-01-03T12:47:08Z

Growing awareness in Nepal of crimes against women has helped an increasing number of victims like Bohara to challenge a culture that often blames or shuns them into silence, say police and activists. Nepal's rape victims shatter taboos to seek justice 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

However, conservative activists and intellectuals quickly coalesced around the cause of repealing the law. Is Mitt Romney Committed to Repealing Obamacare (Part Deux)? 2011-12-19T16:38:15Z

Campus activists debated whether he should be expelled, ostracized, or shamed. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

One leading white power activist, who himself claims credit for the “Diversity” banner, called Hunt’s campaign “a hijack,” and numerous white nationalists denounced his efforts as a sideshow. “White Man’s March” founder throws in his white towel, claims idea will live on 2014-04-22T12:45:00Z

In the midday sun on Saturday, a handful of protesters demanding stricter regulation were countered by hundreds of open-carry activists, some with assault rifles slung over their shoulders. Inside the N.R.A. Convention 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

“Regardless of the filmmaker’s intent,” the actor and activist Kal Penn said, a movie “can offer a narrative that moves people to recognize that political choices always matter.” Hollywood Revs Up Partisan Films a Year Ahead of Election 2011-10-19T22:54:25Z

Instead, their stories and voices are framed by journalists, or activists, or human rights campaigners, in the interest of making a moral point, or titillating the public, or most often both at once. How sex workers are using Twitter to tell their own stories 2014-05-13T16:00:00Z

Carl C. Icahn, an activist investor par excellence, is a veteran of what the practice actually entails: buying a stake in a company and pushing for changes in management or strategy. ‘Icahn: The Restless Billionaire’ Review: Right on the Money 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

And now, happily, there’s a ton of new activists. Environmentalist Bill McKibben: ‘Mother Nature is a very powerful educator’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Gaye’s meditation on social ills, itself inspired by an incident of police brutality and violence during a protest by antiwar activists, has maintained its urgent relevance more than 40 years after its release. John Legend teases Marvin Gaye show, talks Ferguson unrest 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The styles of the lawyer and the activist couldn’t be more different. Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

For decades, Mr. Grass pursued a career, parallel to his literary work, as a political activist and liberal provocateur. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

What gives Adams succor, even now, is a younger group of activists coming to the fore and working in new ways. John Luther Adams, Praying for the Earth in Music 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

“Cops wear camouflage when they arrest people in city drug raids,” said Ben, a Bay Area activist. What to Wear to Smash the State 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

He's become an outspoken advocate of 12-step groups and the recovery movement, and a fierce political activist. Grammy-winning Steve Earle joins Joe Ely at the zoo 2010-06-24T19:31:00Z

“What is the difference between a political activist and an artist? Both involve risk, but for the activist the risk is really just the body; for the artist, the risk is to their inside.” What’s New for Stew? A Blues Fable Told in Story and Song 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Earlier that day, an anti-domestic-violence activist spoke on the need for male-victim resources, and a politico attempted to sell the idea of a men’s rights party in Britain. Men’s rights activists, gathering to discuss all the ways society has done them wrong

Mitchell started an activist group in the '90s with the goal of interrupting traditional messages about what bodies are supposed to look like. Riot Grrrls stake a new space in 'Alien She' 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Why does this activist for freedom not deserve the same support the Arab spring got? A gloriously crude topless 'jihad' from a Femen activist 2013-04-05T15:18:20Z

But the fact is that the protesters and the Act Up activists had a tangible purpose. What makes Dr. Anthony Fauci an "American Master?" 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Horne, who was also a dancer and civil rights activist, died last May at the age of 92. Lena Horne's NYC apartment artifacts to be sold 2011-02-23T16:25:09Z

The stage will aim to bring a political dimension to the event, described as "the original activist festival" by the Barking-born veteran. Bragg to curate Glasto stage 2010-03-19T10:37:00Z

TV special, she sang a duet with African-American singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. Downtown? Petula Clark goes Down Farm 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

The problem, as criminal-justice reform activists view it, is not only one of substandard conditions but of scope. The Disgusting Jail on 'Orange Is the New Black' 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

By night, she avoids her mother’s smoky card parties by wheat-pasting activist fliers. ‘Drylongso’ Review: Extraordinary 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

And when the athletic activist happens to be black, the critique often takes the racialized form of white fans demanding to know what some millionaire jock has to complain about. Football and Politics 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

At least 30 people have died, including four in custody, and many well-known activists and lawyers have been imprisoned. Official royal wedding list, seating plan released 2011-04-23T12:11:18Z

Stallworth and his girlfriend, Patrice Dumas, a black power activist who had been groped by Landers, secretly record him in a bar boasting of his misdeeds. The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

She smartly ticks off a few interesting reasons: Anti-abortion activists have done a good job of painting women who seek abortions as bad girls. Motherlode Blog: Is 'Choice' Less Accepted for Mothers? 2011-10-18T21:32:08Z

Advertisement Advertisement A psychologist lectures a room full of right-wing activists on the “schizoid” tendencies that Rabin supposedly shares with Hitler. Review: Amos Gitai’s ‘Rabin, the Last Day’ Looks Back in Anguish 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Today they are more likely to be part of tourist attractions - where the animals are often mistreated, however, say rights activists. Thailand lays out buffet for elephants in national celebration 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Especially delightful are academic activist twins Barbara and Beverly Smith, whose sheer delight in living is a reminder that joy can also be revolutionary. New & Noteworthy 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

An open letter co-ordinated by Iceland's International Modern Media Institute, signed by activists and academics from 19 countries, claimed the proposals have "already jeopardised longstanding efforts to prevent censorship in totalitarian regimes worldwide". Iceland's porn ban 'conflicts with the idea of a free society', say critics 2013-02-28T18:30:02Z

The world is a challenging place, and Nyborg's Denmark is activist and internationalist. What Borgen's prime minister tells us about Julia Gillard 2013-06-13T01:16:44Z

So, this night, she was not only writer, activist and artist, she was also a mentor standing before them. What Maya Angelou taught my students

Opposition candidates were granted air-time, and activists allowed to canvass voters. Underground actors seek last act for Belarus leader 2010-12-20T18:24:48Z

The Koch foundation Cause of Action donated free legal support to Drakes Oyster Bay Company to fight what the owners called “wilderness activists”. Summer Brennan: 'oyster wars' reveal a battle for America's public lands 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

He is pulled in several directions: by his activist older brother, by his pious West Indian mother and by white British society, which refuses to embrace him. A Landmark of Black Cinema, Restored for a New Age 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

She applauds trans activists for adopting the idea that “gender is fluid and on a spectrum.” My Father, the Shapeshifter 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

But the shift has not kept artists and visually minded activists from trying to say something meaningful during a fractious campaign season. Political Art in a Fractious Election Year 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

He is also an artist, known locally for deploying his black and white photographs of corn, sheep, elders, activists and others on abandoned water tanks, grain silos, Quonset huts and other vernacular structures. A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

I've learned this from dementia activists, people with the diagnosis who are advocating for different language and for better policies. "Our ageism is linked to the economy": Author challenges discussion of who is expendable 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Writer and activist Preston Yancey tweeted on election night: “So I guess I’m not an evangelical. Because I’m not whatever the hell this is.” Jesus wept: How can you call yourself a Christian if you voted for Donald Trump? 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

On Showtime’s “Shameless,” Fletcher plays an L.G.B.T.Q. activist who is simultaneously insulting, raunchy and endearing. The Trans Actors Challenging Outmoded Ideas of Masculinity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The moment was bittersweet: The legendary gay rights activist finally got to celebrate his union legally but was so sick that he couldn’t sign his name. Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dies at 84 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

The project, a collection of 176 portraits of dissidents, political prisoners and activists, was first seen in 2014 as part of a huge exhibition the artist created on Alcatraz Island in California. Review | Ai Weiwei’s new show at the Hirshshorn is self-satisfied, but not satisfying 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

“It’s about bringing people together to deal with political issues. It’s activist in trying to get people to deal with reality. And that was really compelling to us.” Can an Artist Shift the Gun Debate? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, Kumar produced and starred in Padman, a film based on the life of an activist who pioneered a low-cost menstrual pad aimed at improving the health of poor women. From vibrators to gay kisses, how Bollywood embraced the taboo 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Corigliano’s symphony may not have been politically or aesthetically revolutionary, but it showed how a more incremental approach can work alongside an activist vanguard. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The brief scenes smack of dry explanation as we learn of the boy’s troubled upbringing and listen to a fascist activist’s double talk about complicity. Review | Putin for laughs and a random shooting for tears in two topical shows 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

It took extraordinary courage, we are reminded, for Maya to name her abuser and to become the dancer, activist and writer whose words inspire us today. American Artists, Inspiring and Enchanting 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Around 60 feet long, it is a political banner that features cartoonlike depictions of activists struggling under Indonesia’s military rule. Furor Over Documenta Highlights a Widening Chasm in Germany 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

I always say that I’m an activist slash writer. ‘Girls Trip’ Writers Make Movie History — and Influence It, Too 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

She raised me, her only child, to be a feminist and an activist. We (still) can do it: Energized feminists are well positioned for future gains — if we do the work 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Earlier this year, activists urged the Tamil film industry to stop portraying stalking as cool, and instead see it as a crime that has resulted in violent deaths in southern Tamil Nadu state. Movie-mad Indians challenged to rewrite sexist Bollywood songs 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Ono, a performance artist and peace activist, was the subject of the recent MoMA exhibition titled "Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971." For John Lennon's birthday, Yoko Ono will attempt a giant peace sign 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

In fact, there were other activists and writers already blazing the trail by the start of the 1960s. 'A Strange Stirring': Stephanie Coontz weighs the impact of Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique' 2011-02-24T20:36:03Z

A group of about 40 activists blocked the screening of the French premiere of Polanski’s film “J’accuse” at a theater in Rue Champollion, although the film was shown at some other theaters in Paris. Paris protest disrupts Polanski film debut over rape accusations 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

“You always feel that Jenny values you,” said Rose Styron, the poet, journalist and human rights activist, and another year-rounder. For Jenny Allen, She and Her House ‘Were Sort of in This Together’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

In a green oasis in the heart of the city, Stella McCartney offered a literary and activist view on fashion, and the world, as she touted her message of sustainability. Zegna, Stella McCartney tout transition in Milan 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

When today’s younger, socialist-leaning activists disparage older, more Establishment-oriented left-wingers as liberals, they are echoing their New Left forebears of the 1960s and 1970s, who used the term to denounce those deemed insufficiently radical. Modern Political Ideas 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Some activists recommended collective action by artists to push for fair pay from technology companies, on-line and terrestrial radio. Future of Music Summit 2013: Patience and revolution 2013-10-29T05:24:00Z

Families USA, a pro-Obamacare activist group, has done its part by publishing a report that claims that 26,100 people died in 2010 due to a lack of health insurance. Families USA's Bogus Claim That Overturning Obamacare Will Kill People 2012-06-22T12:50:03Z

The letters were written to an artist and activist named Julia Steele Allen, who also, by Fonseca’s request, plays Mariposa in the production. A Play That Confronts the Horror of Solitary Confinement 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

“This is crazy. S— is getting messy,” said Jason Walker, a community activist and Brown voter who was hanging out at a polling site just to watch the action. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

In the first comprehensive biography of Said, Brennan, a former student, highlights the Palestinian scholar’s complexity, delivering a portrait of a thinker, activist and musician endowed with an unusually restless and protean intellect. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

There’s little surprise that before her rise as a political theorist, Arendt was a Zionist activist. What Were the Origins of the Holocaust? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

After taking in his surroundings — “Plantation Master Poison” cocktails, a painting of the activist Ruby Bridges, a black troupe delivering spirituals — Earn remarks in puzzled disgust, “They up for auction after the party?” Amid Upheaval, Juneteenth Takes the Cultural Spotlight 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

By the fall of 1989, he writes, “the groundwork laid by punks and other activists influenced by the punk mentality was becoming a magical, spontaneous, mass uprising.” Need Gifts for Readers? Check Out Our Holiday Book Suggestions 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Actor/writer/director/activist Amber Tamblyn is famous for her roles in "General Hospital," "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and "Joan of Arcadia." Amber Tamblyn on the #TimesUp and #MeToo revolution: “The foundation has been ripped open” 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The party grew noisy as film types and activists arrived, though there was also an undercurrent of tension. “Man Made,” a Film About Transgender Bodybuilders, Upends the Traditional Documentary Gaze 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

Friends, acquaintances, victims and activists are all given their due. 'Tales of the Grim Sleeper' documentary looks at L.A. slaying suspect 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

“It turned me from sort of actor to activist.” As ‘SVU’ Makes History, Mariska Hargitay Makes Olivia Benson’s Mission Her Own 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Woman’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton is among the many famous people interred at Woodlawn. On Halloween cemetery tours, the dead come to life 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

This year's show honors Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident writer and human rights activist who is currently imprisoned in his home country. Anne Hathaway, Denzel Washington to co-host Nobel peace concert 2010-11-19T02:54:00Z

The activist thinks that the engagement of celebrities is part of the story and that “there is a role to play for everyone.” Fashion, Philanthropy and Women’s Rights 2013-06-10T13:15:55Z

Relief arrives with “but there’s hope!” scenes, which depict insurgent Democrats like the congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and young activists like the Parkland school shooting survivors Emma González and David Hogg. Review: In ‘Fahrenheit 11/9,’ Michael Moore Targets Trump, and Us 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

It is a bit about the First Amendment–and perhaps academic freedom too, insofar as activist faculty are involved. Missouri activists vs. the press is still a story about race: This is what happens when black students can’t trust the media 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

She rhapsodizes about her "big gay Jewish wedding" in 2005 to Rachel Lavine, a liberal activist who serves on New York's Democratic committee. Attorney Roberta Kaplan is about to make Trump’s life extremely difficult 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z

In the days since its release, the record has earned praise from Hollywood actresses and Black Lives Matter activists alike. Solange Knowles’s Album of Black Life in America 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Many of the activists in Ape House are either ridiculous or unnecessarily provocative — the misguided eco-feminists or the "Eastborough Baptist Church" members come to mind — yet you yourself are an advocate of animal rights. Water for Elephants Author Sara Gruen 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z

He was a civil rights activist in the 1960s who was radicalized by the 1965 Watts riots but later turned against Black nationalism. Stanley Crouch, contentious man of letters, dead at 74 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

At the Guardian, we favour the literati, social thinkers, political activists, the liberal left establishment – much as you'd expect. Open door: The Guardian's birthdays editor on... who's in and who's out 2010-07-26T10:46:00Z

Scot X. Esdaile will receive the activist of the year award. Samuel L. Jackson to receive honor at NAACP Image Awards 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

The actor and Labour activist said it was "just another example of slagging off teachers," adding: "I don't think that's professional or appropriate." Blackadder star and Gove in WW1 row 2014-01-05T18:44:17Z

Serially, the groups question a quintet of suspects — an artist, an activist, a mother, a drifter, a freeway-system employee. Review: Mean Streets ‘Underneath the Freeways of Los Angeles’ 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

The disability community rejects depictions like these, because according to activists, their only purpose is to make the non-disabled viewer feel good about themselves. “Inspiration porn is not okay”: Disability activists are not impressed with feel-good Super Bowl ads 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

The term “macktivist” is fairly new to the mainstream activist community. What do you call a “male feminist” who only wants to pick up women? Meet the “macktivists” 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Let me tell you a little secret: before Christine Quinn was a powerful New York politician, she was a charismatic activist. The Long Road to Angela Davis’s Library 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

But not progressive activists in Portland, Oregon, who fought to prevent the fluoridation of their city’s water supply. Progressives don’t hold a monopoly on science 2013-01-03T23:02:00Z

It wasn’t an accident that Finney, the child of activists, rose to the occasion. Galley Girl: Poet Nikky Finney Dazzles the National Book Awards 2011-11-25T18:50:55Z

And about six years ago, he and the activist Malissa Shriver founded Turnaround Arts: California, a nonprofit that brings arts education to the state’s neediest schools. ‘What Would I Do?’ Frank Gehry, 92, Is Too Busy to Retire 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

He is a basketball star, yes, but also an activist. LeBron James to Don Lemon on CNN: Trump “used sports to divide us” 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

At 5 p.m., young activists and community leaders will take the Apollo’s virtual stage to address topics like gun violence and reproductive rights in a panel discussion. 6 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King in New York 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

Candace Owens, the 33-year-old conservative activist, talk show host and provocateur, has lurked around the margins of Ye’s stardom for a few years now. Candace Owens and Kanye West’s provocative friendship, explained 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

Animal rights activists frequently protested against the company for its use of furs. Carla Fendi, face of famous Italian luxury brand, dies aged 79 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

A wide range of economists and activists, however, are looking for ways to loosen the rules in a productive way. It’s the Economy: So You Think You Can Be a Hair Braider? 2012-06-12T19:07:04Z

Rachel Dolezal is an anti-racism and human rights activist who is most well-known for the controversy surrounding her decision to live as a “black” woman even though she was born “white.” LISTEN: Russian spies and Rachel Dolezal 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

The works are part of an exhibit held Saturday in Miami by State of SATS, an activist group attempting to foster civil society and stimulate discussion about Cuba's future. Through posters, a dialogue about Cuba's future 2013-05-05T19:58:08Z

Animal rights activists celebrated because of the show’s history of using animals as performers, but some circus enthusiasts called the closing bittersweet. Former circus elephants just arrived at a new sanctuary. They are swimming and grazing on fruit buffets. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Is Obama a symbolic choice for the American people in much the same way Malala is for activist women? Who Should Be TIME’s 2012 Person of the Year? Our Panel Sounds Off 2012-11-13T21:36:16Z

I also use my news feeds to stay up to date with countless LGBTQIA+ creators and activists, allowing me to feel seamlessly connected to my community and stay updated on our current events. Queering Appalachia — finding chosen families online in an unforgiving landscape 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

With the midterm elections looming, the political activist Collins-Dexter’s essay collection is timely as well as pointed. 15 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

She was in the middle of drafting an op-ed for the Times, about a Palestinian activist facing criminal-justice prosecution in Israel, but she swept aside her laptop as I entered and offered me tea. How Ayelet Waldman Found a Calmer Life on Tiny Doses of LSD 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

“One activist in hiding needs monthly about 100 euro for daily expenses,” the website reads. Desperate for health care in Myanmar 2012-06-22T14:06:00Z

On September 20th, millions of children, led by the activist Greta Thunberg, took to the streets to protest the world’s inaction on climate change. Children Lead the Way: A Gallery of Youth-Made Climate Strike Signs 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

You may have your own greatest-hits list for this public intellectual/provocateur/activist/atheist. 'Hitch-22': the unvarnished, unapologetic Christopher Hitchens tells all 2010-06-22T00:12:00Z

The Purple Pig's employees asked activists to leave shortly after their demonstration started, as seen in a video uploaded to Facebook. Chicago restaurant disrupted by activists protesting alleged sexual harassment 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

In the past year, we’ve watched a new generation of activists emerge on the national stage — changing the conversation on policing, and lately shaking up presidential politics. Julian Bond had the long view of this journey toward justice 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Melanie is the most complicated of the four: She lies to her husband and son and yet strives to do right by the white-liberal standards set by her activist friends. A Debut Novel About Two Couples, Divided by Countries and Creeds 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Not just the mens rights activists who’ve adopted The Matrix’s red pill/blue pill analogy as their own twisted “truth” or the Twitter trolls incubated on the internet who idolize Fight Club’s Tyler Durden. Magnolia to The Matrix: was 1999 the greatest year in modern cinema? 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

This was the boy who once ran out of a restaurant in tears because his girlfriend, the actor and activist Martha Plimpton, ordered seafood. The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Is that why you were an organizer of a Black and Asian solidarity march with other designers and activists in March? Prabal Gurung on Anti-Asian Violence, Discrimination and the Duties of Success 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

A Muslim activist from Chicago, Abdul Alim Musa, urged the creation of satellite networks that adhere to Islamic values as the only way to counter the “cultural invasion” by Western movies. ‘Argo’ just another insult by Hollywood, Iranians say 2013-02-19T06:28:19Z

Now, decades after the dictatorship first appropriated Mistral’s image, activists in Chile are celebrating her as a feminist and L.G.B.T. icon — though Mistral never identified as either. Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet. 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

Dr. Maya Angelou was best known as a poet, author and civil rights activist. Go Inside the Making of the First Documentary About Maya Angelou 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

It’s an important story that also deals with the post-9/11 militarization of sports and post Ferguson black activist athletes. Review | Who says all the best sportswriting involves baseball? Here are six great books on football. 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

In contrast to today, the Republican party to which Lincoln belonged was founded by anti-slavery activists and Republicans were often tagged "radicals." Spielberg says "Lincoln" is no political football 2012-10-09T19:10:26Z

His company went on trial on allegations from animal activists that it abuses its elephants, but the case was dismissed without a ruling on the merits. Ringling heirs go to trial over bereavement fight 2011-05-05T16:01:09Z

The year also saw the passing of many activists, politicians and journalists. America mourns heroes, rock icons and sporting legends in 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

“Thirty-five years of wonky liberals trying to induce localities to build housing has been a complete failure,” one fellow activist said. Where America’s Fight for Housing Is an All-Out War 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Over Coloradan wine and cheese, a bevy of activists explained in detail that bees are a key indicator of environmental health, and that they are in radical decline. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

The dementia activist and author Kate Swaffer confessed the same to Harper, marveling at a new clarity and sense of purpose. Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

She jumps around in time a bit, shifting forward and back as she surveys the terrain, fills in the backdrop and introduces a range of survivors, heroes, scientists and activists. ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Review: Some Say the World Will End in Fire 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Matar is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, “In the Country of Men” and “Anatomy of a Disappearance,” which also deal with loss and separation and the shadow of a powerful activist father. Review: ‘The Return,’ a Son’s Pained Search for a Missing Father 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

In light of the Tribune agreement, Epshteyn’s hiring by Sinclair suggests a tacit quid pro quo, said Craig Aaron, president of Free Press, a liberal activist organization that opposes further consolidation. Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump surrogate, now defends him as a Sinclair TV pundit 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

The very mention of it causes a hairy disarmament activist to practically genuflect in front of Ginger. Ginger & Rosa: Best Friends. Forever? 2013-03-15T20:02:09Z

More important still is the fact that, faced with an economic crisis without foreseeable end and few alternatives, a new generation of world activists needs to reconnect with the vibrant political imagination embodied by Neruda. Pablo Neruda's importance was as much political as poetic 2013-04-10T09:42:31Z

Like the first, Chang will travel the world with writers, chefs, activists, and artists who are using food as a way to talk about the the experiences that divide and bind us. What's new on Netflix in March, from "Ozark" to Mark Wahlberg's new action flick 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

To what extent did your roles in movies like Norma Rae, in which you played an activist, influence your real-life identity as an activist? Sally Field on What Hollywood Keeps Getting Wrong 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Emulating the Conceptual artist and social activist Joseph Bueys, she writes her main ideas on a blackboard. ‘Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook,’ a SculptureCenter Exhibition 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The leadership of the Iowa Department of Public Health has recently announced it is backing activists trying to change that state’s law. When being HIV-positive was a crime 2013-04-02T15:15:00Z

Two older activists called in, including Cori Bush, who is running for Congress; another girl, part of a local arts troupe, read a poem about police brutality. These Teen Girls Are Fighting for a More Just Future 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

“I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others,” Cook wrote. Apple CEO Tim Cook Is 'Proud to Be Gay' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Dan and I never really talked about what we did, the fact that he was becoming a very successful activist and that I was becoming a pretty successful filmmaker in Hollywood. "We've got a Marvel movie here": Stephen Gyllenhaal reframes the not-for-profit battle for justice 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

They're an activist performance group, they say, educating as much as entertaining their audience. Culture Clash adds more bite in 'Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

However, amid their praising Dr. King and his activism 50 years ago, Americans are uneasy about contemporary Black activists. Myths about Martin Luther King Jr. damage and diminish his legacy 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

But by the 1950s, a new generation of activists began challenging segregation more directly. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

The 39-year-old activist received the title, referred to as the female equivalent of an honorary knighthood, because of her work to end sexual violence and her services to Britain's foreign policies. Angelina Jolie, now an honorary dame, meets with Queen Elizabeth II 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Juxtaposed against the demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., and the arrests of Black Lives Matter activists elsewhere, it helped awaken a new generation to the writer’s America — ugly, uncompromising, wedded to its own origin myth. In a divided America, James Baldwin’s fiery critiques reverberate anew 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

It turned out that there were plenty of hidden injuries, which women activists discovered and publicized through consciousness-raising groups, pamphlets, and books.  Women’s rights is the longest revolution 2013-02-21T17:14:00Z

I don't mind the label, even "Black Lives Matter activist." “No Ashes in the Fire” author Darnell Moore on what it means to be “Black and Free in Ameri... 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Native American activists said it trivialized one of the ghastliest episodes in Dakota indigenous history. Artist Sam Durant was pressured into taking down his 'Scaffold.' Why doesn't he feel censored? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

As in other western cities, activists are up in arms over rules that they say criminalize homelessness. 'They're just trying to live': Denver clears homeless camp despite controversy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“The Barber of Birmingham,” directed by Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday, is a stirring tribute to the foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, black Southern activists like the film’s focal character, James Armstrong. Movie Review: Three Programs in ?Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012? 2012-02-09T23:35:18Z

From the beginning he is highly observant of the world around him and intellectually curious, traits that forecast the bold civil rights activist he will later become. Sports Stories That Transcend Sport 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Paul DeMain, publisher of Indian Country Today, said there were plenty of Indian activists before AIM but that the group became the "radical media gorilla." Russell Means, Indian activist, actor, dies at 72 2012-10-22T13:45:10Z

By the end, she is presenting what amounts to her own film, an account of the life of a German political activist idealist of optimistically expanding vistas and pursuits. Review: ‘Returning to Reims’ and Those European Working-Class Blues 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

Soon after, you started the Free Russia Forum, an organization for political activists in exile. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

He was, alternately, a crafter of burnished, timeless imagery and a proto-modernist obsessed with abstraction; a social realist and a fiercely political social activist. Paul Strand’s Sense of Things 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

It was probably the most startling event of the suffragette campaign, which had already seen many activists, including Davison herself, imprisoned and force-fed. The cultural year ahead for women 2013-01-08T07:00:00Z

To save itself, it reached outside its network of advocates and activists for someone who could untangle its finances and then some. The District’s HIV clinic was failing. This ‘old, straight white guy’ managed to save it. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

What is interesting with her is that she created enough of a rupture that has reverberated ever since and to so many young activists and women and communities that need it. Sinéad O'Connor "refused to play the game": "Nothing Compares" filmmaker on the bold non-conformist 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

Yet their point about wanting to be viewed as comedians and not social activists is a notable one. The comics in Asperger's Are Us are not here to educate you 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

“But art historians and activists have changed how we value these stolen objects.” Citizen Activists Lead the Hunt for Antiquities Looted From Nepal 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

There were conductors as great as Bernstein — and pianists, and composers, and political activists, and theater artists. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

They weren't just satirizing the news but criticizing the structures that made that news possible, integrating themselves with activists and using their platforms to push those most progressive ideas. How late-night political comedy needs to evolve: Be more subversive 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, some activists claim the RJI report into FGM was politically motivated as it was released just weeks before the parliamentary elections. Russia orders inquiry into claims of FGM in Dagestan 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps it's a mother turned activist, reminding us that her beloved son will be "11 years old forever." 'Bully': a devastating documentary about childhood interrupted 2012-04-12T20:06:04Z

Packed with facts both trivial and significant, relying heavily on the possibly skewed memories of the author’s widow, and utterly reverent throughout, volume two emphasizes Heinlein the husband, traveler, independent businessman and political activist. ‘Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century,’ by William H. Patterson, Jr.

As it happens, James Weldon Johnson, the remarkable educator, journalist, translator and activist who wrote the words of “Lift Every Voice” at the turn of the 20th century, is buried at Green-Wood. Review: In a Cemetery, Music Lives 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

The Jersey City school board voted last Thursday, June 16, 2016, to name a $54.6 million school building for the celebrated writer and civil rights activist. New Jersey school to be named for poet Maya Angelou 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Corre told crowd that activists were “not frightened of,” the injunction. Designer Westwood stages London fashion fracking protest 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

But the activist tone of “A drawing as a recording of an insurrection” should be seen in the company of other artists’ efforts to grapple with Jan. 6 and the prevailing political winds. Facing Violence With Brushes and Ballots 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Even before the article, some Democratic activists were complaining about the committee’s consideration of Fox as a potential broadcast partner. Democrats say no upcoming presidential debates on Fox News 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The logo originated with an unsung radical activist group that had its heyday almost three decades ago. The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

As Ms. Hartman,50, a manager of international projects at COC Nederland, a Dutch L.G.B.T.I. advocacy group, entered a massive, crowded room, she felt relief when she spotted a Nigerian activist friend. Before They Wed, They Dated in Bahia, Dublin, Bangkok, Cape Town and Tulum 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

This was at the Blue Mountain Center, a community of writers, artists, and activists, situated in the prettiest place I’ve ever swum. Swimming with Oliver Sacks 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Some leading Argentine human rights activists agree that Bergoglio doesn’t deserve to be lumped together with other church figures who were closely aligned with the dictatorship. Papal election stirs memories of Argentina’s “Dirty War” 2013-03-14T15:33:00Z

After years of objections from activists, the decision, proposed by the museum and agreed to by the city, came amid the racial reckoning prompted by the killing of George Floyd. President of Museum of Natural History to Step Down After Nearly 30 Years 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Fertility equality activists are asking, at a minimum, for insurance companies to cover reproductive procedures like sperm retrieval, egg donation and embryo creation for all prospective parents, including gay couples who use surrogates. The Fight for Fertility Equality 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

“To the extent you know someone’s an activist or you know that someone is a model, those factors are going to weigh more heavily than just someone’s basic demographics in decision-making,” Taylor said. Weinstein jury seated after prosecutors accuse defense of excluding white women 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The writer, editor and activist Pauline E. Hopkins similarly used question marks within parentheses in her early Afrofuturist novel "Of One Blood." How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

“My heart started racing, and I almost passed out,” said Gregg Gonsalves, 54, an epidemiologist and global health advocate at Yale University who spent nearly three decades as an HIV/AIDS activist. MacArthur ‘genius’ grant winners ponder a new future: ‘Your life can change in an instant.’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Postlethwaite was a political activist known for his opposition to the war in Iraq and his calls to fight global warming. Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies after long cancer battle 2011-01-03T15:16:00Z

The son of Black Panther activists, a history of involvement in violent and criminal incidents, both as victim and perpetrator, the first person to enjoy a No 1 album while serving a prison sentence. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

An ever larger number of heirs with ever larger resources are coming to populate the world of philanthropy and nonprofits, with many of them taking an activist approach to making change. How philanthropic dynasties are exerting their power over US policy | David Callahan 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Axtell, an Austin-based writer, activist and performance artist, is the director of communications for Allies Against Slavery, a nonprofit that fights human trafficking. Meet Brooke Axtell, the Domestic Violence Survivor Who Performed With Katy Perry at the Grammys 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

But what even makes a good activist, anyway? Giant condoms and buckets of fake blood: the true story of Aids activists Act Up 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Feminist activists were at the time outraged the rock star was allowed to return to the scene. Bertrand Cantat is back. But should music fans boycott him? 2013-07-25T10:44:59Z

Their progressive face is shown by outspoken Samira, who performs covert missions for a group of Syrian women activists. First Novels Tackle Sexism and Prejudice, Past and Present 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Vera Eidelman, an American Civil Liberties Union fellow, rightly noted last week that already marginalized voices — activists of color, for example — are likely to be silenced first if Facebook expands its censorship powers. Perspective | Mark Zuckerberg is a horror show. But there’s a glimmer of truth hidden in his latest blunder. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Do I sense a bit of activist solidarity or synergy here? The truth about the "campus free speech" crusade and its myths that won't die 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

The denial was issued in response to singer and activist Billy Bragg criticising the singer for removing her entire back catalogue from Spotify. Swift denies Google music deal 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The well-off activists who took to the streets in the wake of rigged 2011 elections show little interest in the regions, or in their less fortunate co-citizens. Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah – review 2013-06-27T11:00:02Z

The company “has long been an activist organization in terms of its speaking out against such regimes.” Can restaurants take a stand during inauguration without alienating Trump voters? 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Meures got in contact with a Saudi activist in Europe who ran a group chat with numerous Saudi women contemplating escape. Saudi Runaway: behind a suspenseful and courageous documentary 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

But it’s also noteworthy that this work, researched indirectly from news sources, deviated from her regular method of interviews and activist immersion. Andrea Bowers: Her Activism Animates Her Art 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

At the workshop that Parks attended, civil rights activists talked about strategies for implementing integration. The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

The film ends — no need for a spoiler alert here — with Robert’s death; David, emboldened by Robert’s activist spirit, pickets the White House. Long Forgotten, a Landmark Film in AIDS History Is Rescued 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

The prominent government critic was the highest-profile target of a crackdown on activists in China this year. German university: Ai Weiwei accepts job offer 2011-07-13T11:27:09Z

Several shoppers looking for furs declined to speak on the record out of fear that animal rights activists would retaliate against them. Retailers Cool to Ban on Fur Sales in West Hollywood 2011-11-30T20:30:55Z

In the last quarter of the book, a violent crackdown in Wukan endangers his family there and turns him into a full-fledged activist in exile — finally, a position befitting his status. Hustling in Flushing: A Chinese Immigrant Couple Struggles to Decode Life in Queens 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The activists said they will appeal the court ruling. Russian court throws out Madonna anti-gay compensation claim 2012-11-22T17:45:57Z

Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental activist who was recently awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant, tells Rush’s story in “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret.” How the Problem of ‘Waste’ Affects the Rural Poor 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Later in the track, with an almost conspiratorial voice, he asks, “What do you stand for? Are you an activist?” Kendrick Lamar Gives ‘Black Panther’ a Weighty Soundtrack 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Before she arrived, student activists had posted a video protesting her appearance; a week later, faculty members proposed new standards for bringing visiting speakers to campus. Laura Kipnis’s Battle Against Vulnerability 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

On that same subject, there is an interesting anecdote in the book about your being tagged by an activist in a Facebook post about the series “Transparent.” “Being black and gay in America both come with heavy doses of self-loathing”: Actor Darryl Stephens opens up about typecasting, visibility and telling his own story 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Transgender activists were devastated by the news, which sounded, frankly, Orwellian: The government was declaring it would determine people’s genders “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” Perspective | Why should the government — or anyone — care what’s between a person’s legs? 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

This searing presentation of the F.B.I.’s file on and harassment of the singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson brings an exceptional series to an extraordinary close. Review: Ingenious Versatility in the Whitney’s ‘Open Plan’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Transgender movements and transgender activists have always been under immense pressure and backlash. Janet Mock on 'The Trans List' and a Trump Presidency 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

And, as he asks about the problems of one pastor, priest and community activist after another, he adds to his store of knowledge about the way people live. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

Gibson spoke of the challenges he has felt in trying to be a Native artist, activist, educator and parent simultaneously. Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Shaped by the Land 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Famous people mentioned included Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall. April Class of KidsPost: Pinecrest School fifth- and sixth-graders 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

“I know a city that glories in its marvelous zoo,” wrote Daniel Berrigan, the activist Jesuit priest who died hours earlier in the Bronx at 94. It’s not a party without Joe Biden: Scenes from the correspondents’ dinner aftermath 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

The life of the poet, writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou — also sometimes a performer, and more — is revisited in this documentary, which explores Angelou’s many talents. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Art of Political Murder’ and CBS Specials 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

It’s also activist because of the way I look. What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood (*If you’re not a straight white man.) 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

There's a great author and activist named Anne Lamott, and she says that communities without libraries are like radios without batteries. Emilio Estevez on making "The Public," a film about dignity, homelessness and libraries 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak incited an uproar this week when he tweeted a message calling climate change activists “unpatriotic racists.” Spin the Wheel: 11 Celebrities Who Have Said Really Dumb Things on Twitter 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

But activists rallied to protect it, arguing that it should be seen as part of Albania’s history rather than a symbol of the former regime. Albanian communist-era landmark reinvented as youth center 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

But this moment has also sharpened activists’ focus, and expanded their tent. Using Comedy to Push for Abortion Rights 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

The longtime activist Loretta J. Ross teaches a class that works to combat so-called cancel culture. MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Sons of a single mother — Rosie Castro, a prominent liberal activist in San Antonio — they attended Stanford together, then Harvard Law, and even practiced law together for a while. Julián Castro could be VP next year — or out of a job. He’s ready either way. 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

The number of fake activists dominating the internet. The Salon 5: These activists are actually making a difference 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Many activists felt they had no choice but to take the law into their own hands: a good example was the ferocious evangelical Christian Carrie Nation, who stood almost 6ft tall. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z

Bright lives in Atlanta and began her project by photographing and uncovering the lesser-known activists from the Civil Rights Movement and the profound organizing history in the capital city. WATCH: Photographer Sheila Pree Bright demonstrates how little has changed in exhibit #1960NOW 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Many Occupy activists were reluctant to engage with the existing system or even agree to properly define what changes they wanted, she says. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Many of the questions came from college students pursuing climate-related degrees and young activists from the Sunrise Movement, whose pressure on the media and politicians precipitated this town hall. We watched all 7 hours of CNN’s climate town hall so you didn’t have to 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

They made threats against the families of activists; they arrested doctors seen helping the wounded; they worked to sow enmity between people. The Syrian revolution has changed me as a writer 2013-05-03T09:00:02Z

The show follows the real-life adventures of seafaring activists led by Paul Watson who harass Japanese whaling ships. Week Ahead: May 30 ? June 5 2010-05-28T15:11:00Z

Addressing the Oxford Union from his refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London last night, the activist also described the film as an inflammatory attack on Iran. Julian Assange attacks new WikiLeaks movie 2013-01-24T11:20:29Z

Local activists in 1988 hatched a plan to bypass Israeli suppliers and produce milk locally. We are imprisoned by Israel: A filmmaker not allowed to attend his U.S. premiere on the nightmare of life in the West Bank 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

An angry jeremiad penned by a frustrated activist, “The Normal Heart” was very much of its time. ‘The Normal Heart’ still delivers passion and fury 2014-01-21T02:25:41Z

Author and activist Dan Savage added: “He ordered us to love ourselves and each other and to fight for our lives. He was a hero.” Larry Kramer used voice, pen to raise consciousness on AIDS 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

We watch events in a reconstruction by "actors", as clunkingly scripted as Crimewatch, and grainy footage supposedly shot by the activists. Blooded ? review 2011-03-31T21:00:01Z

The activists behind the move oppose any "normalization" between Palestinians and Israelis as long as peace talks between the sides are deadlocked. Palestinians block show by Israeli-Arab singer 2012-01-03T17:59:07Z

After losing her job as a hotel worker in Las Vegas, Duncan joined a welfare rights group and, with thousands of equality activists, marched into the casino Caesar’s Palace to disrupt “business as usual.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Dr. Tony Fauci’ and the Mark Twain Prize 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

Black L.G.B.T., we are reminded frequently — like Marsha P. Johnson, the activist — live an authentic life against enormous odds, and some die for it. Rashaad Newsome Pulls Out All the Stops 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Gates introduces Davis as a living legend, philosopher, feminist and civil rights activist, as well as a "tireless advocate for social justice, crisscrossing the globe to write and speak on behalf of the oppressed." Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Author Toni Morrison has paid tribute to her friend, the poet, author and activist Maya Angelou, saying she was a "real original" with "no duplicate". Maya Angelou was a 'real original' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Auma Obama, a sociologist and activist and half-sister of former U.S. Zimbabwe’s Dangarembga receives German peace prize 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

The Rev. Al Sharpton called Franklin a “civil rights activist and freedom fighter.” Aretha Franklin’s praise-filled, song-filled funeral was one for the ages 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

I'm an atheist author and an activist for secular governance in the U.S. and elsewhere, and I celebrate Christmas every year. Atheists aren't fighting a "war on Christmas" — many of us even celebrate it 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z

But even some activists who use the site for good see greater benefit in the site shutting down its adult section — a move called for recently in Senate and House resolutions. Sex ads: It isn’t just Backpage.com 2012-05-24T15:24:00Z

I've visited one of these boarding schools, or the ruminants of one, with an activist who's now gone — rest in peace to Russell Means. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Even the younger activists in the civil-rights movement were not boomers. The Misconception about Baby Boomers and the Sixties 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Instead, he gives us a series of fly-on-the-wall scenes with patients, as well as interviews with oncologists, activists and volunteers. What assisted suicide really looks like 2011-05-25T15:01:00Z

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, environmental activists rue the boy’s pillaging of the tree and, by extension, the environment. The Giving Tree at Fifty: Sadder Than I Remembered 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

"This summit is important because it brings together government, civil society and activists who care and have been working on this issue," she said. White House announces major study into US female genital mutilation 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Domestic violence activists tried to refocus the conversation. You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. But Not All of It. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

“Policing the Black Man,” edited by the activist and law professor Angela J. Davis, brings together 11 essays from scholars and criminal justice practitioners who offer forward-thinking policy suggestions. Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Across the bar from the Standard Hotel, Josh Kline takes the most activist stance. Artworks Along the High Line 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

While these efforts placed academic activists on the right side of history, to conservatives who opposed the civil rights movement they represented an abomination. Why conservatives hate college 2013-03-31T22:00:00Z

What was less predictable, perhaps, was the kerfuffle that preceded the event, with anti-animal cruelty activists Peta accusing the production of maltreating its livestock. Close up: Hobbiton and on 2012-11-29T17:29:00Z

Evidence of the surveillance has been obtained by Guy Taylor, a 45-year-old activist working for the group, Globalise Resistance, following a request under the data protection act. Glastonbury festival: how police spied on political campaigners 2012-07-15T17:24:32Z

And after the Sichuan earthquake in May 2008, which killed thousands of children who were crushed when their shoddily built schools collapsed, he became an intrepid anti-establishment activist. Critic?s Notebook: An Artist Takes Role of China?s Conscience 2011-04-05T22:31:29Z

The issue seems to be a combination of heightened cultural sensitivity broadly speaking and newly empowered digital activists. Chanel’s Boomerang Comes Back to Hit It 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Carrington said the activists had checked in advance that the work was glazed, so the soupy splattering would cause no damage and could simply be wiped away. Climate Protesters Throw Soup Over van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

On this, activists from both the left and right agree. Has Congress gotten so pathetic that even the protesters aren’t bothering to show up?

He donated significant chunks of his salary to progressive causes, and he began working with the activist Shaun King and the sociologist Harry Edwards on building institutions that might outlast his playing career. The Political Athlete: Then and Now 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Copyright reform activists argue that they're examples of fair use tolerated under copyright law as an accommodation to noncommercial, transformative creativity. 2010-01-16T03:10:00Z

Like many young women, she is passionate about justice and human rights; she is an activist for Amnesty International. Scientology and Hollywood: Tom Cruise, John Travolta and the new “Going Clear” shockers 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Siéfert joins a long list of artists and activists who have locked horns with Instagram in recent years over its community guidelines, which ban content the company deems inappropriate. Why Did Instagram Pause This Play? Its Creators Still Don’t Know. 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Richard Wagner: composer, conductor, dramatist, poet, polemicist, anarchist, Teutonic nationalist, anti-Semite, feminist, pacifist, vegetarian, animal rights activist — the man was the walking, talking definition of “protean genius.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The considerations of restaurants like Antler and the Hoof, which take pains to source ethically farmed animals, mean little to the animal rights activist who takes an absolutist view. Chef who butchered a deer leg in front of vegan protesters: 'We won't change' 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

While Ms. Steinem, 82, has clocked a half-century as an activist, journalist and feminist leader, “Woman” is the first time she has produced and hosted a TV series. Gloria Steinem Brings Feminism to Vice TV 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Alyssa Milano is an actor, writer, producer, activist and Unicef ambassador. We created the #MeToo movement. Now it's time for #HerToo 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The sculpture had previously drawn criticism and activist groups have demanded its removal. UK: Sculpture by controversial artist attacked with hammer 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Public pressure continued to mount, fueled largely by young activists. ‘Techlash’ Hits College Campuses 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

“This is not your grandmother’s revolution,” the activist told him. The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

On Facebook, activist groups organized plans to show up at McConnell’s house and read him the letter from the street, and it all kept persisting, all over the place. A cone of silence for Elizabeth Warren? Nope. 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

The film generally strikes an optimistic tone — highlighting the resilience of these young activists and the community they created. ‘Us Kids’ Review: They’re Not All Right 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Your family, the Sheens, you grew up in a very progressive, activist family. Emilio Estevez on making "The Public," a film about dignity, homelessness and libraries 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Since then, there has been little attempt to police the content of musicians accused of serious misconduct, to the dismay of many activists. YouTube Deletes Two R. Kelly Channels, but Stops Short of a Ban 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

With the original gardeners and activists ageing, and maintaining the gardens being a labour- and time-intensive task, recruiting the next generation of volunteers will be vital for ensuring the gardens continue to bloom. In New York City's Lower East Side, gardening is a political act of resistance 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Bouchareb said he and his team spoke with political activists, police officers, prisoners, Muslim clerics and Afro-American Muslims while researching the film. Abandoned boys, feuding ex-con and sheriff, start Berlin race 2014-02-07T16:29:59Z

Both inside and outside the Brooklyn Museum’s walls, however, some staff members and activists have expressed frustration about the institution’s progress on improving diversity. Brooklyn Museum Celebrates 25 Years of First Saturdays 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Not now and not here,” Seattle activist Ralph Fascitelli, who is coordinating an effort to reverse the name change, said at a news conference Thursday. What does it take to create a holiday? It’s all politics. (But Stevie Wonder can help.)

Civil rights activists used the song frequently; it was sung by African-American children at school segregation protests in Mississippi and Louisiana, and by participants in Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Detroit in 1963. ‘God Bless America’: 100 Years of an Immigrant’s Anthem 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Fred Rogers was more than a moral compass and role-model: He was a philosopher and activist who possessed a well-defined political ideology. New Mister Rogers film downplays his radical edge: “His work was deeply political” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

But the comic, activist, and co-creator of "The Daily Show" knows it's not enough to wring our hands, or even to crack wise with gallows humor. "Daily Show" co-creator on how Trump isn't funny and comedy could help save abortion 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

But during the second week of the conference, youth activists organized inside the conference center, debriefing every day at 5 p.m., and brainstormed about how to get a message through the system. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

The difference now is that the example of yesterday’s activists is used against Black Lives Matter today. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Not only is she a world-class boxer — her skill set is incredible — but also because she's an artist and activist who uses her platform and speaks on issues that she really cares about. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

He was talking recently with a young activist who crowed that the protest movements of today are different. The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

The activists also rallied in front of the restaurant with a banner that read, “Sexual Harassment Stinks” with images of purple pigs on it. Chicago restaurant disrupted by activists protesting alleged sexual harassment 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Jimmy Kimmel, once a rather apolitical figure, cloaked himself in activist garb, pushing for — and against — legislation in a way that forebears like Johnny Carson and Jay Leno wouldn’t have imagined. Late-Night TV Highlights in 2017: Trump, Russia, Weinstein and More 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Yet knowing this, even the most activist among us will occasionally grow weary from the daily onslaught of angst. Review | Cheer yourself up with light comedies from another era 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

In Namibia, a local activist says Chinese businessmen often pay their labour a third of the official rate. Empire of the sums 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

She says the broad term is popular among civic-minded college students who are taught its activist roots in their coursework. The term ‘Asian American’ was meant to create a collective identity. What does that mean in 2018? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The Tea Party activists she spoke to believe the figure is around 40%. Hand on heart 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Firth is a softly-softly but determined activist and she does not define her initiative as “philanthropy.” A Better, Greener World 2012-12-17T14:06:48Z

Unremitting in his pursuit of "subversives", he was known for harassing political activists and wire-tapping public figures. Leonardo DiCaprio tapped for J Edgar Hoover biopic 2010-04-01T15:21:00Z

As Chatelain describes it, those early battles between McDonald’s and civil rights activists mainly revolved around who got served and who got hired. The Surprising History of McDonald’s and the Civil Rights Movement 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

While not including Picasso's most alarming cry of protest, Guernica, these works reveal the artist as a passionate peace activist. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

Writers like Jack Kerouac, artists such as Jackson Pollock, and urban activists like Jane Jacobs were all emboldened by the area’s heady way of life. Check Out Ralph Lauren Home’s West Village Collection 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Nonprofit and activist groups will also hold a week-long “Social Summit” at a university in Madrid beginning Saturday to push for greater and fairer action against global warming. European Union predicts it won’t meet its goal for cutting greenhouse gases 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

A fake FBI raid staged Monday by a notorious right-wing activist and conspiracist turned into an embarrassment for The Washington Post, which briefly reported the faux event as if it were the real deal. A fake FBI raid orchestrated by right-wing activists dupes The Washington Post 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Under a plan supported by activist groups, Lolita would initially be sent from Miami to live in a large, netted-off area in the San Juan Islands near Washington state. After 44 years, Miami orca may edge closer to freedom 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

When it premiered last month, Eli Roth’s film “The Green Inferno,” about a group of social justice activists who are eaten alive by an Amazonian rainforest tribe, was met with boycotts and much controversy. Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

But local support for the museum decreased as activists criticized the organization for accepting at least $35 million from the city, which was investing in Chinatown to gain support for a jail expansion. Smithsonian’s Museum of American Women Names Its Founding Director 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Human rights activists and artists showed up to support the curators. Organizers of Sakharov Museum Show Convicted in Moscow 2010-07-12T22:19:00Z

Lane introduces the devilishly good work of the Satanic Temple, a growing group of activists who are challenging the encroaching overlap between church and state through the use of satanic imagery. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

The author, a 2020 MacArthur Grant winner, delves into the racial and economic factors that keep people living in unsanitary conditions, and traces her own path as an activist. 16 New Books to Watch for in November 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

I was also reminded of the generation of activists who fought with tenacity against an indifferent government, price-gouging pharmaceutical companies and unchecked homophobia. The man behind “How to Survive a Plague” taught us how to be activists 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

An activist group argued the selection perpetuated “ongoing legacies of oppression.” With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Color 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Belafonte with Lena Horne in 1970 at an event in support of the civil rights activist Andrew Young’s campaign for Congress. Harry Belafonte: A Life in Photos 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

JACKSON, Miss. — Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth. 'Freedom Riders': The fight to end segregation 2010-12-21T17:39:15Z

She was raised a Massachusetts Democrat and is now a North Carolina tea party activist. Beck rally signals election trouble for Dems 2010-08-29T10:16:00Z

But not that much is known about Gralton, who was all but a forgotten figure in his native country until the release a year ago of "Jimmy's Hall," Ken Loach's film about the activist. 'Jimmy's Hall' won't let Jimmy Gralton and his deportation be forgotten 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

After a local activist lambasted the efforts of police, Gates lashed out, calling her “asinine” and saying of those who criticized his department’s efforts, “Those dummies should be applauding.” 'The Grim Sleeper' is the story of the South L.A. serial killer and the women who were his victims 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

That heart-vs.-stomach tension at the Co-Op made headlines recently when a group of activist members wanted the store to join a boycott of Israeli products in protest of that government’s treatment of Palestinians. Hummus-Aisle Intifadah! The Daily Show Comes to My Neighborhood 2012-03-28T13:07:30Z

“Let us be brave,” she told fellow female activists, “we have heard of men shaking in their trousers, but whoever heard of a woman shaking in her skirt?” 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z

The activists at MoMA or the Whitney may be demanding to “Decolonize this Place,” but Raphael Montañez Ortiz, despite his focus on destruction, has helped build for more than half a century a decolonized space. How to Decolonize a Museum? Try an Ax. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Meacham widens the field of historical influence to include activists and intellectuals usually deemed outside the mainstream, above all W. E. B. Du Bois. A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

The musician went into hiding and was not heard from until copies of his record made their way to South Africa and touched a generation of activists. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Purge’ and ‘Mayans M.C.’ 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

“Media Matters is a George Soros-funded lobbying organization whose sole mission is to punish critics of the Democratic Party,” Carlson said, referring to the liberal billionaire philanthropist and political activist. Tucker Carlson, under fire, tries to turn the conversation back on his accuser, Media Matters 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Was he a protester or civil rights activist like other models of leadership featured here: Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony and Gandhi? Museum Review: Lincoln?s Legacy at Expanded Ford?s Theater Complex 2012-02-10T13:00:00Z

On Friday, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at the annual Court review of the American Constitution Society, a group “dedicated to…countering the activist conservative legal movement.” Scalia and Ginsburg Drop Hints about Obamacare's Fate at the Supreme Court 2012-06-18T03:47:14Z

“I am not an activist. I like to say I play one on TV.” She’s chasing a Washington dream. He’s the Night Mayor. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Even as her award suggested progress, this year's Biennale hosted a brief protest from young activists who call themselves the Architecture Lobby. A new blueprint for architectural excellence 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

She recounted that the person who interviewed her about her story as an activist insisted that she give "what the producers wanted to see." "The Activist" implosion: How a reality show working for greater good became a capitalist nightmare 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

They found a receptive audience among Protestant ministers, Jewish social activists and others poised to join the emerging civil rights movement. Maurice S. Friedman, Biographer of Martin Buber, Dies at 90 2012-10-06T01:01:48Z

There were lifelong and trained activists in the group, but the march also swept up casual observers who joined when asked, “Do black lives matter to you?” The young people will save us: My experience marching with Black Lives Matter in Chicago 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

How to fight back … digital rights activist and author Cory Doctorow. Future tech: Big Brother, big data or creator culture? 2013-03-14T10:26:52Z

With her new book’s title, Anne Waldman, whose writing, performing, teaching and activist career defies political and poetic convention, appears to promise feminist mischief and playfulness. A Poet Takes Aim at the Literary and Political Patriarchy 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

In the late 1930s, breaking with Le Corbusier over her affinities with communism, Perriand emerged as an activist designer. Charlotte Perriand, Stepping Out of Corbusier’s Shadow 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

I'm hoping this book can help get people on the ground: activists, doctors, civil rights lawyers. Braddock's LaToya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi's and 'ruin porn' chic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

She was making dangerous trips across the border into Syria, using a network of activists to smuggle medical aid to opposition groups. 'We were like guerrilla filmmakers': U.S. filmmaker on Syria 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

The dispute over Winston’s guilt illustrates a paradox many anti-sexual-assault activists face: The government and university adjudication systems they’re expected to draw evidence from are also often the objects of their criticism. “The Hunting Ground” filmmakers on why sexual assault is treated differently from other crimes: “Were you drunk when you claim the television was stolen?” 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Many activists believe the application is only as secure as Mark Zuckerberg’s convictions. Signal Downloads Are Way Up Since the Protests Began 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

The sculpture is talismanic in tone but also a tribute to Latin American female activists celebrated in a nearby drawing, two of whom were killed for their activism in 2016. Our rivers, ourselves: One artist's very personal take on the impact of dams 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

The movie puts an emphasis on Parks’s background as an activist — she was active in her local N.A.A.C.P. chapter — and charts her role in the civil rights movement, starting from the murder of Emmett Till. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Homeland’ and ‘Our Cartoon President’ 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

The convoy was attacked by Israeli forces, who killed nine activists and arrested dozens of others, including Mr. Mankell. Henning Mankell, literary master of ‘Nordic noir,’ dies at 67 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Malaquías Montoya is an esteemed Chicano muralist, painter and printmaker whose activist imagery, focused on issues of empowerment and justice, helped define the aesthetics of the 1970s civil rights struggle for Mexican Americans. Four must-see art shows that speak to the anxiety triggered by Trump's DACA reversal 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

A statement by 18 local non-governmental organizations in December said at least 58 activists were in prison. Morocco's rebel rapper released from prison 2013-03-29T19:53:09Z

“That is the work that made him an activist children’s writer,” Mr. Nel said. At the Dr. Seuss Museum: Oh, the Places They Don’t Go! 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

In his view, Mr. Coates’s inattention to the Black Lives Matter movement and political activists in “Between the World and Me” “shows a certain distance” from his subject matter. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

"You know, I think the unconscious bias and stereotypes reinforced in our culture, whether through media or the people you hang out with, it's powerful," said Taiwanese-American comedian, actress and activist Jenny Yang. Where do we stand with MSG? 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Jamie Miller, my activist friend in West Virginia, offered the best answer I can find. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

In this iteration, which González calls an opera, he further explores modern blackness, public housing and human-object intersections by drawing from influences as varied as the futurist Buckminster Fuller and the activist collective CHARAS. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Supportive friends have questions of their own, as they wonder how she will balance the public demands of being an activist with the private responsibilities of being a parent. My Son, My Daughter: A Mother’s Evolution 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, climate change activists are calling on the flying public to use their carbon budgets judiciously. For Planet Earth, No Tourism Is a Curse and a Blessing 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

Protecting the night sky isn’t an initiative you hear many park activists touting, but for areas like Capitol Reef National Park, it’s a major mission. National Parks Gear Up for Summer Rush 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Last year’s award was given to Carol but this time around, the winner was a far smaller film: documentary The Lives of Thérèse about French feminist activist Thérèse Clerc. Cannes 2016: follow the ceremony as the winners are announced - live! 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Tauli-Corpuz experienced this firsthand after calling attention to imposition of Martial law in Mindanao, where many activists are facing violence. Environmental defenders—often fighting agribusiness—are being violently silenced around the world 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

A group of activists took cruise-ship hatred to a new level. Activists block Holland American Cruise ship to protest pollution: 'Cruises kill climate' 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

There was only a backlash, he says, when the show went into reruns a year later– that’s when anti-abortion activists started laying down in front of his car and disgruntled fans wrote thousands of letters. 'Maude' Creator: Why Olivia Pope's Abortion Was So 'Bold' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Opposition activists seized on the production after photographs leaked of a final rehearsal before last Friday's premiere. Protests against 'tsar' Vladimir Putin reach new operatic stage 2012-05-31T17:38:59Z

In February, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute rescinded an award for the activist Angela Davis a few days after announcing it. Perspective | Does Linda Fairstein deserve a literary honor? Critics say her past as a prosecutor sullies her art. 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Most people present were activists, and many were expressing an emotion beyond grief — not just mourning for someone they cared for and lost, but almost this regret that they didn't do enough for him. "Free Chol Soo Lee" investigates "what went wrong" in 1973's forgotten conviction of an innocent man 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

The film's parade of activists also raises flags. 'The Human Experiment' misses a few crucial steps 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The opening section stays close to Luther, the deadly activist who will initially strike most readers as a monster. Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel arrives splattered with our country’s hot blood 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

So has Crista Noel, a Chicago activist who, after being beaten by an officer in 2009, co-founded Women’s All Points Bulletin, a group that aims to protect women against police violence. Black lives matter — including black women’s, activists remind nation 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Animal activists wont be happy until only rich people can ever see animals in the wild when they can pay up for an ecotour. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Engel said he worked with a team of Syrian exiles in the U.S. and Turkey to contact activists and rebel fighters inside Syria to further investigate the story. Richard Engel reveals new details on his 2012 kidnapping in Syria 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, Caroline Kennedy will gather members of her father's administration, civil rights activists, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and others to celebrate the 35th president's legacy. On JFK 50th, Kennedy family gathers in Washington 2011-01-20T14:41:59Z

Tarana Burke is an activist and founder and senior director of programs at Girls for Gender Equity. We created the #MeToo movement. Now it's time for #HerToo 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

But I also encourage you to seek out the stories of the queer activists and allies who got them there. “Bigotry was the blue plate special”: How Cracker Barrel went from anti-gay to angering the GOP 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Images spring to mind of balaclava-clad activists chucking red paint and righteous invective. A nice bit of squirrel: should we chow down a diet of invasive species? 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

A group of environmental activists have camped outside the presidency building in central Belgrade for several days while demanding a legal ban on lithium and borate mining in Serbia. Serbia: Mine protesters block roads near Statehood Day event 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

An emotionally lacerating documentary about fame and family trauma, "I Am a Noise" provides an unflinching portrait of singer and social activist Joan Baez that will leave audiences gripped to the screen. Joan Baez reflects on remembering trauma, activating her voice and the "wrecking ball" of politics 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z

After Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2018, and word of Ford’s recollections spread, local activists pushed her to come forward. Analysis | A wave of new books reveals the obstacles #MeToo had to overcome — and why it’s not over 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

She drolly notes that “one of the good things about being an activist is that you come in contact with woke men.” Jane Fonda, Intergalactic Eco-Warrior in a Red Coat 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

As a human rights activist as well as an attorney, my view of a durable resolution to the Palestine-Israel conflict is predicated on law and justice. Both sides of the knife: When we speak about Palestinian violence, we ought to do so in the context of “the ongoing and daily oppression faced by some 4 million people” 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Pakistani activists say there are some 1,000 honor killings in the country every year. Review | Qandeel Baloch was a social media star in Pakistan. A new book explores her life and murder. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Fogel says “opposition to it is more a device of anti-religion activists than genuine concern for what is a fabricated issue”. Foreskin reclaimers: the ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

Here he encountered the writings of Walter Rauschenbusch, an early-20th-century proponent of the Social Gospel, and fell in with a group of civil rights activists. Jon Meacham on John Lewis, the Legend and the Man 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Brett Gaylor, a documentary filmmaker who calls himself an activist for a free and open Internet, developed the web series “Do Not Track” as a cautionary tale about the web as a menacing, all-seeing eye. Going Interactive at Tribeca With Storyscapes 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

She now offers the lessons she’s learned as an activist with an emphasis on how to engage in splashy civil disobedience. New & Noteworthy 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

That occurred after a small local activist group’s campaign to stop the play asked donors to withhold funds from the JCC’s parent body. Artistic director Ari Roth is fired from Theater J 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Pro-Kremlin activists accused him of promoting cannibalism and tried to ban his novella “Nastya,” a grisly allegory about a girl who is cooked and eaten by her family. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

Black power activist Stokely Carmichael was among those who held meetings up there. MLK’s booth at his go-to barbecue joint became a memorial. Then it disappeared. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

We’re expected to only be activists or people who are singular and can only write about the self. Roxane Gay: ‘If I was conventionally hot and had a slammin’ body, I would be president’ 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

But if daring to become an activist — the word is taboo in this dystopian Disneyland — is merely a way of salving liberal guilt, how meaningful can it be? Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

But the experience prompted him to become one of the nation’s first openly gay activists. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Bowers told me that among tree-sitters and other activists she felt “more accepted than I did in the art world.” Andrea Bowers: Her Activism Animates Her Art 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Chicago activist Mariame Kaba once told me that by constantly referring to some communities as war zones, we trap ourselves into considering only those solutions that are steeped in a punishment mind-set. We are not Chiraq: Yes, Chicago has too many murders, but labeling us with terms like “war zone,” “Chiraq” and “urban terrorism” doesn’t help 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Feeling burned by the suggestion that only girls bake, the budding activist decided to do something about it. Eighth grader takes on the Easy-Bake Oven 2012-12-03T21:17:00Z

I am not a huge animal rights activist, but I do value life. Ask Amy: White elephant gift exchange goes to the birds 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

In the authors’ view, Lincoln intended to be an “activist President” in promoting, as a national model and on an ever-expanding scale, the up-from-poverty pattern of his own life. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Dragon in Progress”, a 50-metre-long bamboo and silk kite hung from the ceiling, transforms a traditional symbol of Chinese imperial power with quotes from imprisoned or exiled activists including Nelson Mandela, Edward Snowden and Ai. Ai Wei-Wei critical of China at opening of Swiss exhibit 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Chiuri turns to the densely packed writings of feminists, art critics and activists. Perspective | Paris Fashion Week begins with coronavirus anxiety — plus latex, feminism and flashing neon lights 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

She was a veteran activist and part of a local movement whose leaders had been waiting for the right moment to launch a campaign against bus segregation. The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

The panel he put together included civic activists who could talk about the ins and outs of running for office and serving. Where Words Matter: Politics, Fiction, Romance, Scrabble 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

“So-called electability is no more a science than astrology. Indeed, it is often little more than calcified prejudice,” Boston-based political activist Jonathan Cohn wrote recently. Perspective | Joe Biden and the ‘electability’ delusion — and why the media keep making the same mistake 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

The next challenge, gay activists say, is to lobby parliament to repeal the law. A Gay Film Festival in India Strikes a Chord 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

With Washington bureaucracy and left-wing consumer activists lined up against real reform, it would have been tough enough to get strong pro-innovation bills through Congress. How Big Pharma Undermined Medical Innovation for Financial Gain 2012-02-16T00:22:16Z

Indeed, food activists often point out that rabbit farming has a number of advantages over other kinds of livestock. Eating the Easter Bunny 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

It would also be too easy to label “Nicotine” as a satire of activist and Occupy culture. Nell Zink's 'Nicotine' can leave a reader breathless 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

For some commentators and activists, the party should remain in the past. Playboy club returns to London, some hopping mad 2011-06-03T16:20:50Z

But lawyers, activists and opposition politicians want more. E-books by major post-WWII author Irwin Shaw out 2013-02-26T17:46:04Z

In Cleveland, the late Russell Means, the well-known Oglala Lakota activist and actor, organized a local AIM chapter. My life as a Cleveland Indian: The enduring disgrace of racist sports mascots 2014-04-13T15:30:00Z

See? human rights and queer activists are saying, this is what we've been trying to tell you. 20 years ago, Matthew Shepard was murdered: A letter from Laramie, 1998 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Fonda is a longtime political activist with roots opposing the Vietnam war. 'Nobody works like Jane': hundreds join Fonda at latest climate protest 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

In New York, the contemporary artist and social justice activist is installing some 300 works across the city’s five boroughs for the Public Art Fund exhibition “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” opening Oct. Around the world with Ai Weiwei: Where to get your fix of the artist's work 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Portman, a vegan and activist for liberal causes, campaigned for Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. Natalie Portman: ‘JFK was a great proponent of civil rights. Trump is taking us backwards’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The show, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad, tracks the arguments among feminist activists as they wrangled over goals and strategy. Theater to Stream: ‘Assassins’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Before playing father and son on “Lovecraft Country,” Williams and Jonathan Majors shared the role of the real-life gay activist Ken Jones in this ABC limited series. Where to Stream Michael K. Williams’s Best TV Performances 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Carl Dix, one of the activists responsible for Rise Up October, says that he doesn’t like Tarantino’s use of the N-word in Django Unchained, but is otherwise in favour of the film. Quentin Tarantino: film maverick and police critic delights in controversy 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

The black-clad daughter of an activist, she’s raising a teenager herself, fielding phone calls about hair disasters in between leading chants on the front lines. Movie Review: ‘Elemental,’ an Environmental Documentary 2013-05-17T00:53:44Z

He appears in regular skits as “The Angry Black Male” to mock activists who he and Gutfeld believe overuse and misuse assertions of racial inequities. Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that’s no joke 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

Detroit is a delightful but haphazardly realized hypocrite of a character who runs a radical activist organization but uses her own Pan-European white voice to upsell her art to big buyers. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

The oldest church and first paved road in the Americas are both in Santo Domingo’s Zona Colonial, but so are plenty of new businesses that reflect an evolving artistic and activist presence. 36 Hours in Santo Domingo 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

In a truly egalitarian society of ideas, no one would think dissent is grounds for expulsion, whether that dissent comes from student activists or four freshman congresswomen. I'm told to 'go back home'. But I'm an American – and dissent is patriotic 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Political activists and black radicals battled against the resurgence of racism that engulfed the nation. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

While Noah projects the righteous ardor of a campus activist, British-born Oliver comes across as an exasperated high school teacher. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

It was Nina Simone’s first record, and knowing where she was headed in her life as an artist and activist, there’s something so resonant and intimate about the simplicity of this record. Sara Bareilles on the Lessons of Pema Chodron and the Joy of 10-Mile Walks 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

“Kanata,” a play inspired by the history of Canada’s indigenous groups, known as First Nations, lost North American investors the same year after activists accused the production team of ignoring indigenous input. With a 7-Hour Saga, Robert Lepage Returns to Safer Ground 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

This is a history of London radicalism from the perspective of two self-proclaimed activists desiring to construct an alternative lineage as unimpeachable as the Duke of Westminster's. A People's History of London by John Rees and Lindsey German – review 2012-06-22T21:55:20Z

Once again in the spotlight, as activists challenge photo ID laws that they say hinder minority voters, and definitely a preoccupation for Malcolm. Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn also writes for the magazine about his father, Leo, who was blacklisted for several years for expressing sympathy with trade unions. Hollywood Reporter apologises for role in McCarthy-era blacklist 2012-11-20T12:31:40Z

Rights activists praised the laws but stressed their passage was just the first step, and likely not the hardest one. Pakistan lauds Oscar-winning filmmaker 2012-02-27T12:34:12Z

In this hourlong performance for families, the baritone Anthony Brown will portray Robeson, the African-American actor and vocalist who was also a civil rights activist. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Our activist mothers and fathers warned us about this tactic. Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

The museum had recognized that the depiction was problematic, and, after years of objections from activists and amid an urgent nationwide conversation about racism, proposed removing the statue in June 2020. Roosevelt Statue to Head to Presidential Library in North Dakota 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Burnside was a gay activist, so the artist suggests a political application for the device: altering views of what’s “normal.” In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

A Suquamish, Kitsap County, nonprofit consultant, community organizer and political activist outlines the "careful planning, realistic goals and sustainable financing" that any viable nonprofit needs. Washington state's Gov. Booth Gardner is subject of new biography 2010-06-28T23:20:00Z

Although the interviewees frequently speak directly to the camera, McDonough does not include her questions in the movie and rarely engages the activists, even to offer evidence that supports their statements. ‘Parkland Rising’ Review: A Close-Up on Activism After a Tragedy 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Members invited activists as their guests, and most celebrities attending the awards show wore black as a sign of solidarity. Tina Tchen, Ex-Obama Aide, Will Take Over Time’s Up 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Gyllenhaal framed her character, a frustrated parent, as “someone who doesn’t think of herself as an activist at all,” but “gets radicalized by the situation she’s in.” Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal in ?Parent-Trigger? Film 2012-02-20T23:20:38Z

I was just in Arizona at a small meeting with mostly Latino kids, activists. Bernie Sanders says he has no idea how his campaign got young people so engaged 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, an environmental activist meets with a journalist who warns that a mining company is responsible for a looming environmental disaster. ‘It’s our problem’: Brazilian drama brings Amazon rainforest battle to screen 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

A local reporter, tipped off by immigration activists that Vargas would be trying to get onto a plane, shot video of the encounter. From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run

Saintly Emily, who worked in a Chicago “pro-life women’s advocacy organization,” nevertheless counts among her friends an abortion-rights activist and — oh, the horror! — a drag queen. Review: In ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning,’ a Red-State Unicorn 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

The commencement speaker was an activist Catholic nun who emphasized solidarity with the global oppressed and midwifing a new world of social justice. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z

Film is the festival’s center, but the event has evolved, with activists telling their stories; journalists, scholars and authors speaking; and musical performances. March on Washington Film Festival mines history, has eye on the future 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

The inciting incident of this story is an activist dies in police custody, and there’s an investigation. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bringing Back Black Panther 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Heineman weaves the group’s harrowing footage with scenes of the exiled activists reporting in hotel rooms, crossing borders and grappling with mounting losses back home. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Gifted’ and ‘City of Ghosts’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

But perhaps the biggest issue, and the one that has drawn the most attention, is getting large-scale buyers of tomatoes to pay a penny more per pound, which the activists say would double farmworker salaries. Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser take on fairness for farmworkers in ‘Food Chains’

“Amy is a wise and phenomenal activist and ally and knew that that needed to be said in the film.” Gen Z gets inspired by Gen X in Amy Poehler’s film ‘Moxie’ 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Citizens Parade is described as an “activist processional” that responds to the history and diversity of the neighborhood. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Robinson said he will ask fellow activists in Washington County on Wednesday to approve a vote of no confidence in Wu, calling the woman's allegation "just another in a long line of disappointments and improprieties." Dem. leader Pelosi calls for ethics probe into Rep. Wu sex allegation 2011-07-25T15:29:00Z

But a group of more left-leaning activists has tried to push the party further and has become increasingly critical of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. A.O.C.’s Met Gala Dress Triggered Strong Reactions 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

As both a critic and as a feminist activist, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this dilemma. Can an Abuser Make Amends? ‘The Color Purple’ Points the Way 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Nelson Mandela, already a veteran activist, proposed a move to armed struggle. Art Review: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography 2012-09-20T22:48:21Z

Clooney, a U.S. actor and activist, said he could recall meeting the Italian leader only on one occasion, about aid to Africa. George Clooney called as witness in Berlusconi sex trial 2011-03-29T22:27:04Z

As the young activist Julie, Ms. Wilhelmi looks a bit like an exotic forest creature herself, and sings Mr. Friedman’s more serious songs with a girlish air. Theater Review: ‘The Great Immensity’ Gives Environmentalism Its Own Lyrics 2014-04-25T02:00:01Z

Their efforts built new and lasting bridges among activists, scientists and policy wonks while establishing a blueprint for social change. The man behind “How to Survive a Plague” taught us how to be activists 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

“We have this quite interesting group of people, but we do know that many Black Londoners were activists,” Putnam said. Here’s What to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

The author, Amelia Blanquera, was a writer and activist before her death in March. Modern Love Podcast: Danielle Brooks Reads ‘About That Rustle in the Bushes’ 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Madonna resisted calls from pro-Palestinian activists to boycott the event over Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. Israeli culture minister criticises Palestinian flags at Eurovision 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

In one of the best essays yet written about the film, author and activist Chris Hedges reminds us that this kind of sentimentality is always to be distrusted. Hollywood has abandoned war satire for the likes of the super-solemn “American Sniper” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

That Carl has spent the greater part of his career as a women’s rights activist, and that he earned his Ph.D. in queer theory, imparts to the scene a sense of vertigo. After Living as a Woman for Decades, He Staged His Own Gender Reveal 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

While he was at the theater, he met the man who would be one of his greatest friends and influences: the blacklisted African American actor, activist and singer Paul Robeson. Academy to honor Harry Belafonte for his activism 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Those familiar feelings make this a powerful and relevant, but also depressing show, not least for how it dissolves the more activist works on view into a fog of paranoia. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

In the video, an Abort67 activist said that the cameras weren’t used to identify patients at the clinic but rather to gather evidence to counter claims that they use harassment tactics during protests. Watch a Pregnant Woman Confront Anti-Abortion Protesters Outside of a Clinic 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Most of us began to walk slowly toward the highway, but some two dozen activists did not move. Dakota pipeline protesters confront the “black snake”: “We’re living by the fire” 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Home truths: how the Tate sowed the seeds of discontend Pity the Tate bright spark whose idea it was to ask a well-known activist to run a workshop for them, called Disobedience Makes History. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z

Greta said she is hopeful the activists’ message of urgency — that governments need to drastically increase their efforts to combat climate change — is getting through. Greta Thunberg named Time magazine’s ‘person of the year’ 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

But now she enjoys the distinction of being the only author on this list actively targeted by activists on the right and the left. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

WorryFree is the subject of protests, led locally by a group called Left Eye—activists wear a smear of black greasepaint below their left eyes as an identifying mark. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Animal rights activists argue that farming octopuses will, based on this evidence, induce needless suffering on an unprecedented scale. Why the ethics of octopus farming are so troubling 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

Since August, activists from across the country descended as well to help shape a movement addressing the relationship between law enforcement and the black community. Ferguson is now a symbol, not a place

According to Schulman, he ignored the contributions of activists who were women or people of color and how their backgrounds in Black liberation movements, the labor movement and reproductive rights profoundly influenced strategy. A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

She reminds me-in certain ways- of my namesake the incredible and powerful Paul Robeson; who was an athlete, actor, activist ,opera and folk singer, performed Othello and eventually took control and directed his own movies. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Subsequently, as a student and an activist, a clandestine militant and a political prisoner, she crosses back and forth between the warring groups. | 'Incendies': Scavenger Hunt for Family Secrets Across Time and Geography 2011-04-21T22:24:49Z

Becoming an activist outside the studio was not an obvious fit for Ms. Fernández. For Teresita Fernández, Personal Is Political 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Political art can either aim straight at its targets in angry, activist mode — or it can turn to mockery and humor to pull off its effects. Artists re-imagine 'The Game of Life' in satirical exhibition 2011-06-24T21:26:05Z

Of Iranian decent, this unsigned Kent-based rapper is revered by new-skool political activists alongside those with a penchant for lyrical skill. Meet the rising stars of UK hip-hop 2011-02-09T11:59:11Z

He’s a muckraking activist, Ketcham, not a poet, or at least not this time, in this book. Can the American West Be Saved? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

One impetus for the Selma marches was the killing of activist Jimmie Lee Jackson by a trooper named James Bonard Fowler. The war that would not end: Race relations take the opera stage 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Politically a leftist, Ms. Jones became an insistent activist. Elayne Jones, Pioneering Percussionist, Is Dead at 94 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Left-wing and other activists were actively working for racial and gender equality throughout the 20th century. A “high plains drifter” who is adrift on history: Clint Eastwood’s troubling nostalgia for a past that never really existed 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

But fierce activist campaigns throughout the 1990s, especially on college campuses, forced companies to change their tune. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z

My activism comes from my love for the world: I am a film-maker not an activist. Fight the power: documentaries to unleash the activist in you 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, four friends and I founded The 1491s — a group of writers, directors, visual and traditional artists, and even one bona fide activist, hailing from seven tribes and four states. "The Native characters aren't afterthoughts": "Barkskins" writer on reclaiming Native narratives 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

And he goes, “Because I was an activist at your age.” These Teen Girls Are Fighting for a More Just Future 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Jolie’s move into directing was designed to complement her activist work, with films about the Bosnian war, a second world war PoW and the Khmer Rouge. Every Angelina Jolie film performance – ranked! 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

As the sun began to set on the crumbling ruins, activists and residents flocked to the replica Ishtar gate at the site’s entrance to celebrate what they called a historic moment. Ancient Iraqi city of Babylon designated UNESCO World Heritage Site 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

It’s not clear that even Democratic women can succeed as outsiders the way many men have; all but one of Moscatello’s main characters were already in politics, as activists or aides to politicians. The Women’s Revolution in Politics 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

If nothing else, The Night Of reminds us what NYU professor and rights activist Bryan Stevenson has taught: a person is not the worst thing they have ever done. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

“I was really skeptical of the show as an activist, queer woman and woman of color,” she said. There Is a Vagina Museum in London 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Mailer, with student activists, in Chicago’s Grant Park. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

Later they are joined by Miss Weaver, the tireless activist and financial backer who funded Joyce’s lifestyle and helped secure his legacy. In ‘Joyce’s Women,’ 2 Great Irish Writers Square Up 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

“I am the canary in the coal mine,” shrieked Dame Vivienne Westwood, the flamboyant British fashion designer, couturier to everyone from supermodels to world leaders, punk icon, eco-warrior and political activist. Vivienne Westwood Dresses Like a Canary for Julian Assange 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

He sometimes regrets “his revolution” for the destructive forces it unleashed: not just the Syrian government’s scorched-earth brutality, but also Islamist extremist militias that claimed Abed’s banner only to sideline and repress activists like him. A Reckoning With the Wars He Has Known 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

It shows activists performing early morning prayers when an Israeli helicopter approaches and soldiers rappel on board and shoot at them, Bilici said. Flotilla ship is setting for anti-Israel movie 2010-10-03T19:01:00Z

Before his career as a political activist and advocate for global hunger relief, Geldof was lead singer of The Boomtown Rats. Live Aid organizer Geldof to visit Fulton school 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Just as the folk music icon and pioneering activist has unlocked a fresh reserve of cultural resonance, however, she has decided to step back. Joan Baez on Her Next Chapter: ‘I Don’t Make History, I Am History’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

On Nov. 4, 1979, a 444-day international crisis began when student activists from Iran stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took more than 60 Americans hostage. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Hostages’ 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

Some artists propose alternative people to memorialize, like the anarchist and labor activist Lucy Gonzales Parsons. What Should Monuments Look Like Now? 25 Artworks Reveal Some Ideas 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Buff and other activist doctors spread use of the term of “black lung” as a way of dramatizing the plight. America Has Mistreated Its Coal Miners. Here’s Their Fight for Justice. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

“I mean, if black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” the activist, author and MC had said. How ‘A Different World’ dealt with the L.A. riots and set the stage for a more political TV 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

That movement may not have come to pass, but women continue to challenge power in every area of life, including activist groups like Time’s Up. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Even before Jackson’s controversial remarks, DeVos was under fire from many anti-sexual assault activists because of reports that her department had reached out to “men’s rights” groups frequently accused of misogyny. Betsy DeVos meets sexual assault survivors after her deputy apologizes 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Shakur’s mother, Afeni, who died last year, was a civil rights activist and a Black Panther; an early scene shows her emerging victorious from a conspiracy trial a month before giving birth to him. Review: ‘All Eyez on Me’ Is Uninspired. Tupac Shakur Was Anything But. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

No one was ever arrested for the attacks, which were clearly targeted at his mother, a prominent local activist fighting anti-Semitism. I Love My Brother, but He’s a White Supremacist 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

A group of animal rights activists told reporters Tuesday they would stage an anti-fur rally and launch a consumer campaign to boycott Fendi products. Seoul allows Fendi to feature fur in fashion show 2011-05-31T10:33:09Z

The activists had been arrested, the statement added. Climate Protesters Throw Soup Over van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Fonda, a prominent activist since her early 1970s opposition to the Vietnam War, asked the crowd to demand among other things a 50% reduction in fossil fuel emissions over the next 10 years. Jane Fonda brings climate-change fight to LA ahead of Oscars 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

But activists saw an easy culprit in the company anyway. Snapchat’s Disappearing Act Leaves Venice Beach Searching for Its Future 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

The artist as social commentator, activist, horrified observer is nothing new. Review: Artists illustrate war, politics and more in Seattle group show 2011-04-28T20:14:19Z

“The police shoots somebody, and right away the mainstream press reports the police version,” said Mel Reeves, a community activist and editor at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, which serves an African American readership. Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Nobody cares about blacks and browns,” an activist said at the time. 'The Grim Sleeper' is the story of the South L.A. serial killer and the women who were his victims 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Walker, the first African American woman to charter a bank, was, like Bethune, a nationally known civil rights activist in her day. These national historic sites celebrate great women. Shouldn’t they have more visitors? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

It also shows the work of Jasmine Dellafosse, a community organizer and activist who helps youth avoid the court system. ‘Stockton on My Mind’ shows mayor’s dreams for hurting city 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

“She knows people see her as an activist and this is definitely the most diverse movie I’ve worked on.” ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Projects in the pipeline include the lead role in Ms, a HBO biopic series about feminist writer and activist Gloria Steinem. Marisa Tomei: ‘I only got to be old very recently’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

Author and activist Michael Pollan said it is “one of the shining lights of the food movement — an incubator for future leadership.” Michelle Obama names new director of her Let’s Move anti-obesity campaign 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

In the decade that followed, the establishment’s walls held fast, and the 1970s brought ideological disillusionment for activists and utopian dreamers. ‘For a New World to Come,’ Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

New Economy thinkers and activists are working hard to develop a different economic model that serves people and the planet so that we’re increasing equity and living within the planet’s limits simultaneously. Social inequity vs. the environment is a false choice 2014-03-16T21:00:00Z

In February 1965, he was sent to Marion, Ala., to cover the shooting of the civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson by state troopers, a dangerous assignment no senior colleague wanted, he later recalled. Spider Martin’s Photographs of the Selma March Get a Broader View 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

And although we learn a great deal about the young activist, we learn even more about the past and present of copyright law and the free culture movement. 'The Idealist' is a riveting look at activist Aaron Swartz and the free culture movement 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Now Britain is to get its own equivalent based on the real-life story of a Met police officer who spent seven years posing as an eco-warrior to infiltrate a group of activists. Tale of undercover eco-warrior PC could hit the big screen 2011-01-12T12:49:04Z

Health activists and one fellow chef called her a hypocrite for promoting an unhealthy diet along with a drug to treat its likely effects. Chef Paula Deen hid diabetes, pushed high-fat food 2012-01-17T23:14:10Z

She grew up in 1970s Brooklyn to activist parents – "what you'd call black bohemian folks," she says. Lynn Nottage: a bar, a brothel and Brecht 2010-04-20T21:00:00Z

As Dr. Sadownick put it, this is the “therapist as activist” model. The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fox could be called an activist, too, having driven a carful of supplies to the Standing Rock tribe’s 2016 protests of the Dakota Access pipeline and helping clean up afterward. Julia Fox, Diamond in the Rough of ‘Uncut Gems’ 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Sherman Alexie has projected that the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, which brought together members of 300 tribes in America, are going to catalyze the next generation of indigenous artists and activists. ‘Heart Berries’ Shatters a Pattern of Silence 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Members of Washington’s foreign policy community, as well as Syrian activist groups, contacted museum officials, including the director, Sara J. Bloomfield, to register disapproval. Holocaust Museum Tries Again on Contentious Syria Study 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Every activist has their own way of going about things — "I'm right," "You're wrong." Photographer Devin Allen on why "we need a renaissance" now 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z

And now, activist and legend: Her Twitter feed, with almost 3.5 million followers, is often politically bracing. Cher Has Never Been a Huge Cher Fan. But She Loves Being Cher. 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

“House music for me was never just about tracks,” this D.J., transgender activist and fashion darling told Vice. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

It turns out the teacher was a KKK supporter who was shot during a Klan attempt to blow up the home of a Jewish activist. After “The Jacksonian,” Beth Henley recharges with slapstick “Laugh” 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

This play by the writer and filmmaker Kevin Willmott examines those adolescent years, which fostered Dr. King’s decision to become both a minister and a civil rights activist. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

NAIROBI, Kenya — Actor and human rights activist George Clooney made a quiet visit to a volatile border region between Sudan and South Sudan last week, ahead of testimony he's giving before a U.S. Clooney makes quiet visit to volatile Sudan region 2012-03-13T17:17:09Z

Kander moved on, to join the hosts of the popular liberal podcast “Pod Save America” as they did a broadcast from the scene, and the young activists walked away, uploading their photos to social media. Jason Kander lost a big Senate race. In today’s Democratic Party, he’s still a rising star. 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

In London, he helped start a residential commune of civil rights activists and contemplated the idea of abandoning art in favor of full-time political organizing. Vivan Sundaram, 79, Dies; a Pivotal, and Political, Figure in Indian Art 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

You have been an activist for climate change for a long time. Kyra Sedgwick knows we're obsessed with her marriage to Kevin Bacon: "I totally feel pressure" 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z

The number of murders of transgender people in the United States hit a record high this year, activists said on Friday, amid outcry over rising violence in the transgender community. Transgender murders in US have nearly doubled since last year, activists say 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

In the wake of Sandy Hook massacre, Morgan, an outspoken gun control activist, made his position known in just about the loudest way possible: The 8 most tabloid-y things Piers Morgan did as a CNN host 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Komen said it made the decision because Planned Parenthood was the focus of a congressional investigation, which was launched at the urging of anti-abortion activists. Komen president resigning 2012-08-09T14:17:00Z

In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson said the phrase “we shall overcome” in an address to Congress, deliberately borrowing the language of black civil rights activists to trumpet a voting rights act; it changed the country. ‘It doesn’t matter.’ ‘We’ll see.’ The Trump Doctrine is sounding more fatalistic every day. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

"If one person dies, they will say four people died," the activist told Reuters by telephone. Satellite TV news, serials widen Iranian-Arab gulf 2011-12-14T14:11:39Z

The boomers get tied to the sixties because they are assumed to have created a culture of liberal permissiveness, and because they were utopians—political idealists, social activists, counterculturalists. The Misconception about Baby Boomers and the Sixties 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

This week: A celebration of an African American author and activist, a new musical based on a fantastical French comedy, and a holiday show improvised right before your very eyes. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 11-18: 'Impro Theatre’s 1966 Holiday Variety Extravaganza' and more 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

I remember the flurry of indignant emails I received from a well-known poet for the crime of using the term "nature writing" without appropriate sarcasm, the term being infra dig for any self-respecting activist. Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary by Esther Woolfson – review 2013-03-15T17:42:01Z

Dias co-founded the DC Coalition for Theatre and Social Justice to bring together artists and activists who were flying in separate orbits. Friends and playwrights tell stories that call for action on stage 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Teaching is his way “to engage with social justice,” he explained, since “I’m not an activist. I don’t go out and protest. I don’t really like protests.” Meleko Mokgosi Wants You to See the Politics of Everyday Life 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

“This is my last activist ...” she said into the camera and paused, searching for the perfect word. When assisted dying means you have to go before you're ready 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Patten and his fellow activists succeeded and, in 1979, the board of trustees asked Patten to convert some unused office space into an apartment and live there as a caretaker, the lawsuit says. 'Phantom of the Fox' fights to stay in apartment 2010-10-26T13:28:00Z

An ardent activist and organiser, he spent summers working on kibbutzim, alongside comrades who rebuked him for singing Beatles songs, and he flew to Israel on the last flight as the 1967 war began. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z

Meanwhile last week, both the Wells Fargo and General Electric shareholders’ meetings were under siege from Occupy activists.  Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

But I missed her elevation to health activist. How Kim Kardashian became the public health activist for the stars 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Based on the true story of a Planned Parenthood worker-turned-anti-abortion activist, it presents both the procedure and the providers as savage and murderous. How a new wave of taboo-busting comedies are tackling abortion 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

But, perhaps more important, it conveys Ms. Hill’s journey from an accuser alone to an activist who shares with, and listens to, others. Movie Review: ‘Anita’ Revisits the Clarence Thomas Hearings 2014-03-20T23:42:19Z

The activists “severely underestimate the fragility of these irreplaceable objects,” the statement added. How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling. 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

Policymakers and activists urged him to “focus on whatever would create more options for those who had the least. For me, that was the power of expression.” Review | He named his band the Slants to reclaim a slur. Not everyone approved. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

In the Veronica Barassi essay that I cite, the activists she interviewed complained about the effects of social media on time. Jenny Odell wants you to stop having a hot take 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

This is a strange and disappointing choice for an activist writer such as her. Alice Walker's The Color Purple should be read in Israel 2012-06-22T12:59:33Z

As a disability-rights activist, whose mother died giving birth to him, he knew he would need an unsentimental collaborator. Girl X: An actor? In a wheelchair? 2011-04-11T20:59:01Z

"Sometimes it's slower than activists might want, but their work does move the needle, I think." John Legend talks 'Love In The Future' 2013-04-17T00:14:07Z

Indeed, it's Tory, along with ex-Mormon and gay activist Troy Williams, who articulate the area where Morris clearly thinks the truth lies about McKinney and Anderson, partway between their competing accounts. "Tabloid": The beauty queen who "raped" a Mormon 2011-07-15T00:30:00Z

Parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades. Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S. 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

For the thirsty, drinks will be made on a “bike blender,” a device created by the “musicians, artists, activists, inventors, circus performers and bicycle enthusiasts” of the collective Band of Bicycles. Weekend Miser: Family Swimming and Live Music 2010-08-26T21:30:00Z

But Davidson insists that he is less an activist or an intellectual than an observer, pure and simple. “I’m an Outsider on the Inside”: An Interview with Bruce Davidson 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

As explanatory of his coming into consciousness, Robertson would often quote his late friend, the radical Indigenous poet and activist, John Trudell. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z

For the activist extraordinaire, it’s all in a decade’s work. The abortion rights movement is bolder than it’s been in years. That’s Cecile Richards’s plan. 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Artist, pioneer, feminist, activist, and a dozen other titles swirl around Hanna's sweat-covered brow as we get to know her both as an artist and as a person. 25 great rockumentaries every music (and movie) fan should see 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

Leo Watermeier, a French Quarter resident and local activist who walked past the Ritz-Carlton several times back then, also doubts the story about the floating body. ‘Brian being Brian’: A unique storytelling ability connected Brian Williams with viewers, but it also led to his downfall 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

In response, many of these big-box stores are facing pressure from unions and activists to provide hazard pay for employees whose day-to-day tasks put them at risk of exposure to COVID-19. How grocery store workers are dealing with the anxious crowds and high demand 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Kristan Hawkins is president of Students for Life, an antiabortion activist group with branches in high schools and colleges around the country. Perspective | This is what the beginning of the end of the Roe era feels like 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

A 2010 follow-up in the American Economic Review found that factories targeted by anti-sweatshop activists saw the largest wage increases while Nike has responded by shifting production to other nations, like Vietnam. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was written by James Weldon Johnson, a civil rights activist and leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in 1900. "Do football, not wokeness": Conservatives angered over Black national anthem sung at the Super Bowl 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

A monument to journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was unveiled Wednesday in Chicago. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

“I’m not going to be an activist laureate the way Natasha was,” he says. Charles Wright, former U-Va. professor and author, is named new U.S. poet laureate

Set in AutoAmerica — a future world of surveillance and melted polar ice — a couple of activists find their lives transformed by their daughter’s baseball prowess. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

On release, it was criticised by civil rights figures including Coretta Scott King for largely ignoring the role of black and white activists. Mississippi Burning: a civil rights story of good intentions and suspect politics 2013-04-10T09:34:57Z

It is the connection between art and real estate that activists in Boyle Heights have their eye on. How artists became capitalist 'foot soldiers' in the gentrification wars: Case study, Boyle Heights 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Also on hand Friday to talk it up at the book party were Omair Ahmad, the author of the novel “Jimmy the Terrorist,” and Rahul Bose, a Bollywood actor/rugby player/activist. ArtsBeat: Indian Fiction Rising 2011-07-06T13:53:24Z

Syrian activists say the Arab monitors have had inadequate access to trouble spots, a charge denied by Damascus. Suicide bomb kills 26 in Syria: interior minister 2012-01-06T18:06:07Z

Best known for her 1982 novel "The Color Purple," Walker has worked in many genres — poetry, fiction, essays, films, children's books — and influenced public thought as a critic and activist. Alice Walker's "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" and the rare gift of Black women's published journals 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

At the moment, the people leading the way on the right are disparate grass-roots Tea Party activists who are operating without a leader or shared ideology. ?Epistemic Closure?? Those Are Fighting Words for Conservatives 2010-04-27T22:19:00Z

To wit: Tony’s work for Saudi Arabia has caused some raised eyebrows among human rights activists. The rise and fall of the Podestas, Washington’s powerful political brother act 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

On Friday, activists in more than a dozen cities are expected to take to the streets beginning at 2 p.m. Global activists gear up for Pussy Riot rallies 2012-08-15T15:54:09Z

In the latest of several accounts of killings and other abuses, local activist Mohammed al-Homsi said troops and pro-Assad militiamen had stabbed to death seven males, including a 10-year-old, from one family on Tuesday. U.N. aid chief seeks access to battered Syrian city 2012-03-07T13:18:06Z

And so, she wrote, she made it a “personal mission” to help communicate the issues fueling the disruptions, getting in touch with BLM activists ahead of events and brokering listening sessions. She’s chasing a Washington dream. He’s the Night Mayor. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

The Central Park Conservancy’s website’s brief description notes “Birds will not be able to enter,” which, I guess, is to ward off protests by animal rights activists. Review: ‘Please Touch the Art’ and ‘Drifting in Daylight,’ Outdoor Art at the Parks 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

These activists help their local communities understand women's rights in Islam. Muslim women are using Sharia to push for gender equality 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

She had been convicted of illegally voting in Rochester, her hometown, and activists were split over the best way to push the movement forward. A Trove on the Women’s Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

These are just a few names of black girls and women whose tragic deaths the public might have ignored if their families and black feminist activists had not diligently fought for justice on their behalf. Art That Confronts and Challenges Racism: Start Here 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Redgrave, who was less well known as an actor than some of his relations, was also a prominent left-wing political activist. UK actor, activist Corin Redgrave dies aged 70 2010-04-06T16:15:00Z

As a younger woman, in the US, Donna worked as a social worker and is also quite the activist. 'She's 85 and can out-dance me': the joy of the age-gap friendship​ 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

Yet she follows in the footsteps of many great activists and leaders before her. To this Black Lives Matter co-founder, activism begins in the kitchen 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

I think he should be emphatically encouraged to continue his activities as a design activist, collector, impresario and client. Brad Pitt Creates His Own Furniture Collection 2012-11-07T23:41:43Z

And activist Bella BAHHS, who met Smollett while protesting the police murder of a 16-year-old, said she doesn’t trust Chicago police not to make things up — including the allegations against her friend. In and outside court, Smollett fights for reputation, career 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

And though the experience might have been new for the Pakistani educator and activist, the opera’s plot was wholly familiar. Pakistani rape survivor Mukhtar Mai comes to L.A. to see justice, if only onstage 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Saturday, the roughly 15 parents and activists still there agreed to leave after Board of Education vice president Jesse Ruiz arrived to the school and listened to their grievances. Activists end sit-in at Piccolo school 2012-02-19T01:33:00Z

I had also noticed that Bobby Schindler was billing himself as a “disability rights” activist, using the slippery slope argument to show that the “threat” to one minority group automatically meant a threat to all. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

The program - with a style similar to the documentaries of U.S. activist filmmaker Michael Moore - has grabbed an audience share as high as 20 percent. A hit TV show rises from the ashes of Spain's crisis 2013-04-11T11:39:34Z

But not every artist and activist in Oakland wants an organization or institution-led approach. What is the fate of BLM protest art? 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

It will open with a documentary on the British comedian and activist Russell Brand. Brand documentary opens festival 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Her story was politicized from the start: It was seized by a Republican operative, who urged her to go public at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the right’s annual activist spectacle. Paula Jones, Reconsidered 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Sotheby's has been under fire in recent months from activist investor Daniel Loeb. Christie's CEO stepping down; new leader named 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

“Under the Shadow” is built around a series of interviews with youthful students, activists, businesspeople and artists, “divided in politics but united in their passion”. A novelist and a journalist come to terms with the new Turkey 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Schatzel held up her skirt and touched her hair while posing for a photographer, as activists around her continued to march down the street. Instagram influencer responds to backlash about Black Lives Matter protest photo shoot: report 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

Keith has a role to play on the path toward any possible reform; a prosecution, activists believe, would be an important first step. Americans want justice for George Floyd. Keith Ellison is in charge of getting it. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, two activists with southern roots who had both been involved with the civil rights movement. New Black Panthers documentary tells the story behind the berets 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

With that remark, Ms. Westwood, a political activist and queen of punk, almost certainly distinguished herself as the only designer showing in London, Milan and Paris this month who hopes to sell less. For Vivienne Westwood, an Unsentimental Return to London 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Seigenthaler had tried to persuade the activists to call off protests, fearing further violence. 'Freedom Riders': The fight to end segregation 2010-12-21T17:39:15Z

I'm proud of all of the work that prison reform activists are doing, and hoping awareness of "When They See Us" spreads as DuVernay's drama adds another vital human layer to our fight for justice. Don't look away from Ava DuVernay's "When They See Us," the most important series on TV now 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

The group identified the other activist as Benjamin but did not provide a surname. Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Painting 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

But they weren't community activists dedicated to appeasing underlying issues that led to juvenile delinquency. They arrested me for playing basketball: A personal argument in favor of defunding the police 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

The Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, which had “Grainstacks” on exhibit, said in a statement that the activists were associated with Last Generation, an advocacy group devoted to climate change issues. Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Painting 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

Debora, five years older than I, was a political activist who had spent years working for the senator and Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. ‘Kadian Journal’: A father tries to survive the loss of his son, 14 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The teens who, galvanized by the astonishing sixteen-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, took to the streets on Friday for a “school strike” in cities spanning our shared, imperilled globe, are in a different position. New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Anytime they seek to license discrimination or legalize discrimination, it emboldens politicians and activists at all levels to follow suit” said McBride. 'This is life or death': trans people threatened by Massachusetts vote 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

"What is of grave concern is that the targets of this scrutiny are, among others, activist organizations fighting for a just cause." WikiLeaks publishes security think tank emails 2012-02-27T07:19:00Z

The writers meet with community organizers, workers, artists, activists, farmers and Israeli settlers, and report on what they learn. What to Read Before a Jewish Heritage Trip 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

The archival material came from journalists and activists who were involved in the time and hung on to the tapes and posters and materials and interviews. "Free Chol Soo Lee" investigates "what went wrong" in 1973's forgotten conviction of an innocent man 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Many organizers reiterated that this is ‘not a moment, but a movement,’ and challenged activists to maintain the momentum,” the concert’s organizers wrote on their website. Concert Marking Anniversary of Eric Garner's Death Set for Friday 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

I always challenged the Taliban and challenged the terrorists when I was working as an educator and as a human rights activist in Swat. Malala's Dad: How I Raised a Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Rockets, artillery and sniper fire have killed several hundred people, according to activists' reports, but security forces have held back from a full invasion of opposition held districts. Syrian security forces clamp down on Damascus 2012-02-19T19:17:00Z

Truth Revolt refused, explaining that "quoting a woman's book does not constitute a 'false' story, even if she is a prominent actress and left-wing activist." Lena Dunham defends herself against accusations of sexual abuse 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

In their tribute, the Yes Men, an influential media activist group, refer to Abel “as the undisputed master of modern media pranks.” Humor and media hoaxes put social justice ideas on the map 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

Growing out of the Watts Writers Project — where its three members met and began to collaborate — the Watts Prophets innovated a jazzy spoken word poetry with an activist sensibility and deep roots in the community. The literature of Watts 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Late in life she became a social activist. Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011: A Lustrous Pinnacle of Hollywood Glamour 2011-03-26T17:35:55Z

It has also pushed to acquire material from grass-roots conservative activist women and others left out of the dominant liberal-feminist narrative of women’s history. A New Home for Angela Davis’s Papers (and Her ‘Wanted’ Poster) 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

Citizens, civil society groups, activists, public health practitioners and academics can demand their right to health by calling for government action on commercial determinants of health. The world is hooked on junk food: How big companies pull it off 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

The activists said that importing the animals from the US to Australia would cause them significant physical and psychological distress. Johnny Depp's dogs must 'bugger off' to US or face death for entering Australia illegally 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Nor the history of Black communism, which connected sharecroppers in Alabama to nut-pickers in St. Louis to Black radical activists and intellectuals of lasting import. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

As described in Jack Lowery’s new book, “It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful,” wheat paste was something like a holy substance for activists, enabling the circulation of their righteously angry art. Recalling One Activist Group’s Outraged Art at the Height of the AIDS Crisis 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

One teacher told her that civil rights activists were not God-fearing and were, in fact, the people the Bible warned about in Revelation. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Rather, his intent is to highlight the complicity of everyone, from the reenacters, with their historical blindness, to the campus activists with their disconnected culture-speak. T. Geronimo Johnson brings culture clash to 'Welcome to Braggsville' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Ambassador Jon Huntsman mentioned the artist among other activists who "challenge the Chinese government to serve the public in all cases and at all times." Chinese artist felt detainment coming, wife says 2011-04-06T15:35:10Z

The Lovings became civil rights activists by default: victims of the times, the color of their skin and a willful, wrongheaded judge in Virginia. | ?The Loving Story': ?The Loving Story,? an HBO Documentary 2012-02-14T01:46:53Z

Many pizza farmers also see themselves as activists and teachers. Where the Produce Includes Pepperoni: The Pizza Farm 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

While he was still tweeting photographs of the Sumatran rainforest on Thursday, Eco Watch reported that the actor and activist was no longer on local soil. Indonesian government threatens to deport Leonardo DiCaprio for palm oil criticism 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

“History Keeps Me Awake at Night,” the Whitney Museum’s retrospective of the works of the artist, writer, and activist David Wojnarowicz, opens with a mask of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. David Wojnarowicz’s Still-Burning Rage 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

Artist and progressive activist Stan Herd created the piece, one of his many so-called Earthworks, with grass, earth and other natural materials. Artist creates natural portrait of Lewis in Atlanta park 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Opposition lawmaker Dmitry Gudkov said the amnesty bill "has buried all hopes of human rights activists and families of political prisoners that their children and family members will be set free." Russia passes amnesty bill, but still questions 2013-12-18T14:40:18Z

Even after Friday’s dismal news, abortion rights activists were trying to keep their chins up, pointing out that there are other regimens for medication abortions, albeit regimens that are less effective and more painful. Perspective | The abortion-pill ruling will make abortions as harrowing as possible 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

Topics: Political Animals, , Progressive Causes, Progressives, , Volunteer Work, Volunteers, I am active within the local activist community in my city. Hire me, I’m a volunteer! 2012-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ms. Maxwell had negligible experience as an environmental activist. Whatever Happened to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Plan to Save the Oceans? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

The piece follows a growing international outcry over the artist's disappearance, with the US, Britain and the EU criticising China's growing crackdown on dissidents and activists. China media condemn 'unruly' Ai Weiwei 2011-04-06T08:42:05Z

Though I was never much of an animal activist, one documentary about elephants I saw years ago changed that. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Community activists start organizations that offer legal, medical and educational counseling. Building Back Better — One Community at a Time 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

This National Book Award-winning biography, decades in the making, clears up factual disputes and re-creates fly-on-the-wall details that add invaluably to our understanding of the civil rights activist’s life. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

The organization is now over 25 years old, and Chuck is slowly handing over its management to the next generation of forest activists. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

Though these results fell far short of what most activists believed necessary, in historical perspective the transformation in both law and public opinion had been swift. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z

I wish I could tell you that when I was 13 years old I had a premonition that I’d be a great human rights activist. “President Obama has been a cottage industry for racist imagery and racist memorabilia”: Why understanding the history of Jim Crow is still essential 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Opposition activists reported that violence continued to rage across much of Syria on Friday. Hillary Clinton says Syrian military may oust President Assad 2012-02-25T03:47:00Z

Given the issues with the overall concept and pushing celebrities to the forefront, it should be not surprise that even choosing the activists to feature was a fraught process. "The Activist" implosion: How a reality show working for greater good became a capitalist nightmare 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

This was seized on by Labor activists as an incentive to vote for their party. Film and TV stars shake up the British election (sort of) 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Franzen includes a little jab at the writer and activist Naomi Klein for arguing that “the time is right” for societies to tackle climate change. Jonathan Franzen Despairs of a Planet Inhospitable to Birds 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

TV activists such as Howard Goodall and Gareth Malone, not to mention the American teen hit Glee on Channel 4, have engendered a fresh and informal, still highly disciplined, enthusiasm. Choir of the Year 2010 ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Now activists from a loose coalition called the Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement are demanding that the galleries leave. How artists became capitalist 'foot soldiers' in the gentrification wars: Case study, Boyle Heights 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Knight and his investors earned millions while enduring the wrath of politicians and activists such as C. Delores Tucker, who condemned Death Row's violent lyrical messages. Suge Knight, a link who'd lost connection 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

He considered seeking refuge in a foreign embassy, or escaping south with other fugitive activists toward Hong Kong, but in the end he remained in Beijing. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

In her press statement, Ms. Walker claimed that her latest efforts — all made during this excruciating summer — form a show that is “not exhaustive, activist or comprehensive in any way.” Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

She comes from a family of activists and artists. Yoga’s Instagram Provocateur 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

There was not a chair symbolically left empty for an imprisoned Saudi activist honored at the 2019 Time 100 gala, in which he says Jared Kushner thoughtlessly sat before Minhaj shaded him in public. Tripping up the King's Jester: How is Hasan Minhaj still in the running to host "The Daily Show"? 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday, the group staged its fifth museum protest, with activists glued to a 16th-century copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at The Royal Academy, one of London’s major art museums. U.K. Museums Face a Sticky Problem From Climate Protests 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

The New York-based filmmaker said bringing youth activists on a tour retracing the "Freedom Rides" promises to be a vivid experience. 'Freedom Riders': The fight to end segregation 2010-12-21T17:39:15Z

A longtime Democratic activist — during the Obama administration, his name was floated for both treasury and energy secretary — he launched Need to Impeach last October with a national television commercial on major news networks. Want to impeach the president? This billionaire is on the case. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Putin cracked down on a television station that broadcast “South Park,” activists carried signs that read: “Putin Killed Kenny.” Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z

The members of the panel were the sort of leftist activists and intellectuals who make up Verso’s core audience, writers for the Nation and Jacobin. Publishers are reeling from Trump's win, but the news is not all bad 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

But some activists think Trump’s callous behavior was a favor in disguise. Donald Trump put disability in the spotlight, but not in the way these advocates hoped 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Because of her reporting on human rights abuses in Chechnya, the journalist and activist Anna Politkovskaya was threatened, detained and possibly poisoned. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s progressive to be an activist,” she says. Gugu Mbatha-Raw: ‘It’s an actor’s duty to help the culture to evolve’ 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Better eat your cheeseburger before you get to Paisley,” Van Jones, a political commentator and activist who was a friend of Prince’s, said he used to think before visiting Prince. Clues to the Mystery of Prince’s Final Days 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

I don't know any serious Black intellectual, artist, or activist responding to Ye's absurd claims. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Whether that’s the underdog candidates who won even if they were not traditionally viable candidates, or activists fighting on issues in New York. Brewing a "Coffeehouse Resistance": Hopeful activism that's organized and energized 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Moore’s show regularly includes a smattering of surprises, like special celebrity guests who are friends of the liberal activist. Michael Moore Takes His Broadway Audience on Buses to Protest Trump 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

Civil rights activists sat down at lunch counters, marched in the streets and crossed red lines. #CancelColbert accomplished nothing: Why social change movements must be inclusive 2014-04-03T18:32:00Z

But that destitution also beckoned the anti-establishment, materializing in a matrix of artists, musicians and social activists. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

New social policies like affirmative action and school busing affected white blue-collar families far more than they did the more privileged classes that spawned many antiwar activists. The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

He said he does not consider himself an activist, but he wants to express his feelings on the good and negative matters impacting his community. Blazers’ Lillard turns to recording music inside NBA bubble 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

A cellist and scholar of Russian classical music, Professor Ewell, 54, describes himself as an activist for racial, gender and social justice and a critic of whiteness in music theory. Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

At the film’s premiere, Ms. Rafsky met some of her father’s fellow Act Up activists. Adult Children of AIDS Victims Take Their Memories Out of the Shadows 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Ikponwosa Ero, the United Nations independent expert on albinism, said it’s vital that not only activists tell the story of people with albinism, but that artists do, too. With albinism, musician Lazarus finds light in the darkness 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

No doubt some of the film’s audience would reject such an argument if it were stated directly by an animal rights activist or environmentalist, but the filter of metaphor makes it far more palatable. Hollywood's summer of revolution 2011-09-14T18:01:00Z

In recent years, precisely to take account of people like Pellittieri, scholars, activists, and medical practitioners have begun urging policymakers to adopt a more expansive definition of infertility. The Case for Redefining Infertility 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Instead, it was talk of the plastic bottles polluting the ocean floor that drew a crowd of activists, including Bionic Yarn’s co-owner, the music mogul Pharrell Williams. Fashion Review: In Carolina Herrera They Trust 2014-02-16T11:46:16Z

The first survey devoted to Moore’s art, it lavishly details his multifaceted achievement as painter, set designer, filmmaker, writer and activist. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z

Representing every state was an intercultural, intergenerational mixture of politicians, students, community leaders and activists, solid everyday folks and figures thrust into public life out of necessity, not choice. Night two of the virtual DNC held aloft the party's true stars: America and her people 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

She took on activist causes, including a push to increase diversity on the runway. The Three-Decade Wild Ride of Supermodel Naomi Campbell Isn’t Slowing Down 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Claim to Fame: Mr. Nash, a sophomore at Brown, is a journalist, activist and poet who was named Washington’s Youth Poet Laureate in 2021. A Poet Activist at Brown With a Powerful Voice 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

“So I’m saying S.N.C.C. is the model for climate activists,” he said. Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Writing in Rolling Stone this week, Rick Perlstein looks at how the FBI regularly entraps and creates “terrorists” out of anarchists and activists, while comparatively ignoring violent white supremacist groups. Riot porn from Kanye and Jay-Z 2012-05-30T20:33:00Z

Janet Mock is a journalist, an activist, an educator, and a published author with a new book to promote. Piers Morgan grills trans activist Janet Mock with invasive, sensationalist questions 2014-02-05T16:16:00Z

The main battleground was Tompkins Square Park, where community activists, punk anarchists and the homeless repeatedly clashed with the police over use of the park. Art Review: A Beijing Bohemian in the East Village 2011-07-28T23:14:41Z

“There are so many people to look up to in the world, and Lady Phyll is one of them,” Riseborough told Reuters of her decision to invite the activist to the event. Stars join forces with activists on BAFTA awards red carpet 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

An avowed socialist by his early twenties, he co-founded an activist organization that fought for the land and language rights of the country’s small, disenfranchised population of Irish speakers. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Emma Berdis’s son, James Baldwin, became an amazing artist and activist and lived into the 1980s, but died of cancer of the esophagus. Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

So high in fact, that it inspired Frederick Joseph, a marketing consultant and activist from New York to set up a GoFundMe campaign called “Help Children See Black Panther”. ‘Young black people can be heroes too’: the campaign to send kids to see Black Panther 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Taking a page from Barbara Walters, Brown asked, “Are you first an artist and then an activist, or are you an activist first and then an artist?” | A Star-Studded Dinner in Basel for the Artist Theaster Gates 2013-06-13T22:11:14Z

Some of the most fascinating parts of her film show the growth and coalescing of her fellow activists, who became invested in stopping his candidacy. Review: In ‘The Waldheim Waltz,’ a Nation Reckons With Its Nazi Past 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Organizers called it an unusually good turnout for their niche activist group, in which fans of J.K. Why these Harry Potter fans are standing with the LGBTQ community against a J.K. Rowling tweet 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

People like activist Anton Seals Jr. say that by not signing the agreement, the foundation is asking for the blind trust of low-income people. Obama Presidential Center faces pushback from Jackson Park residents 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

And just like in my activist role, I’m not afraid to tell the truth in public. A principal figure of the Black Lives Matter movement on leadership 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Despite occasional involvement in issues such as the fight against apartheid, which saw her appear at the concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, she wasn't an activist. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z

As history records, someone was killed for real in those riots – but it was a white man, Blair Peach, an antiracist activist. Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part 2011-02-10T21:59:00Z

Along with her father, Bea is an activist and a critic of the current Hutu administration. 'Running the Rift': a race for a Tutsi boy's life 2012-01-11T22:10:05Z

When the lawyer, activist, author and educator Pauli Murray died in 1985 at the age of 75, no obituary or commemoration could contain all of her pathbreaking accomplishments. Pauli Murray Should Be a Household Name. A New Film Shows Why. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

The AT&T-DirecTV deal hasn't prompted as much alarm from activists and regulators because DirecTV doesn't offer its own broadband Internet service. Charter nears $55-billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

The women, once members of the Russian activist art group who lately have become advocates for prison reform, will appear as part of Frieze Talks, a daily lecture series at the fair. ArtsBeat: Co-Founders of Pussy Riot to Appear at Frieze Art Fair 2014-04-24T15:56:55Z

A Holiday Built on Presence, Not Presents MY three vegetarian, activist, urban, multi-degreed, agnostic, adult children have rejected as a consumerist sham of a holiday, one in which they will not be participating. Modern Love: Modern Love - Building Christmas on Presence, Not Presents 2012-12-20T17:50:57Z

I was unaware of gay activist Mark Segal ambushing or "zapping" news broadcasts. "Visible": The impact of TV on queer identity, before and after Ellen 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The European Court of Human Rights last year ruled against Spain for jailing two activists for burning pictures of former king Juan Carlos, Felipe’s father, in 2007. Art or show? 200,000 euros to burn down a statue of Spain's king 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Which is all to say: It’s been a rough 24 hours for animal rights activists and feeling human beings, alike. “Where were Cecil the lion’s parents?”: Twitter uses gallows humor to cope with dentist’s grisly act 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Robinson’s comments were met with widespread scorn – one human rights activist accused her of being a “willing pawn” in Dubai’s public relations campaign. I tried to help Dubai’s Princess Latifa to escape – a year on, I dream of her release 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

She follows the recent releases of two major projects — an album, “Eve,” and her autobiography, “Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music” — with this tribute to Miriam Makeba, the South African singer and political activist. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Adelaide Clemens's performance as Valentine Wannop in the recent TV adaptation of Parade's End was a missed opportunity to deplore – there aren't many great portraits of women political activists in our literature. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z

Orchestra leaders and labor activists alike worry that the ongoing gridlock in Texas and Massachusetts could hurt their efforts to woo back audiences. The Pandemic Struck Orchestras With Underlying Conditions Hard 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The main distinction is that this show focuses on people wrongly condemned to death and the narrator is the actress and activist Susan Sarandon, who won an Oscar for the capital-punishment movie “Dead Man Walking.” The TV Watch: CNN’s New Series ‘Chicagoland’ and ‘Death Row Stories’ 2014-03-05T22:15:57Z

The actress and activist April Ashley, one of the first Britons to undergo sex-change surgery, was also named an Officer “for services to transgender equality.” ArtsBeat: Winslet and Branagh Among Those Honored by Queen 2012-06-18T14:17:52Z

The cultural boycott of South Africa, which activists first called for in 1958, was initially a total ban on foreign artists working in the country, and on arts institutions abroad hosting South Africans, she said. To Boycott Russians, or Not? In Film and Beyond, That’s the Question. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

They try different forms of protest, including civil disobedience, inspired by Aster’s grandfather’s experience as a civil rights activist. Saving Birds by Ruffling Some Feathers 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

I knew about your role leading Planned Parenthood at the national level, but didn’t realize until recently the extent of your activist bona fides with labor unions earlier in your career. Cecile Richards on what it’s like being the center of controversy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

I meet with two student activists, on condition that their anonymity is protected. Burma activists say hands up for democracy 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

GOP firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene extolled the court for outlawing "mass genocide," though anti-abortion activists nonetheless warn of Planned Parenthood already organizing an "illegal abortion enterprise." How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z

This gave the tribal members permission to name themselves after the alligator, creating a new Coushatta clan, said Eli Langley, 23, a tribal storyteller and activist familiar with the tribe’s history. The Gator Finds a Place at the Tailgate 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

She was a casting director and an animal activist who, 12 days into knowing James Brolin, drinking Scorpions, said something Texan like, “So, are we going to get married or what?” Josh Brolin Fears the Summer of Josh Brolin 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

The film explores Muhammad Ali’s transformation from cocky boxing upstart to outspoken political activist through his appearances — more than a dozen — on Mr. Cavett’s show. Dick Cavett in the Digital Age 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

“Frances Perkins was the Secretary of Labor appointed by FDR, and she was an incredible labor activist and she was the architect of the New Deal,” Schatz said. The radical magic of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "She embodies that willingness to just risk it" 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Women’s rights activists are furious the judges gave the director’s latest film numerous nominations and have pledged to disrupt the ceremony. French minister enters Césars row over Roman Polanski nominations 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Peggy Charren began her unlikely career as an activist when she grew alarmed at what her young daughters were watching on television — a profusion of advertisements for sugary products and “wall-to-wall monster cartoons.” Peggy Charren, advocate for improving children’s television programming, dies at 86 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

The streaker was artist and gay rights activist Robert Opel, who had managed to get backstage by putting on a jumpsuit and pretending to be an entertainment journalist. The nine greatest Oscar moments 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Most college students failed to suspect potential bias in an activist group’s tweet. You are now the gatekeeper of news 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Watkins acknowledged his group pays small stipends to people who receive training as community activists and attend public meetings. Emanuel deflects question on patronage 2012-01-30T23:37:00Z

"Sean is an activist of the struggles for the world's oppressed peoples, and he's leaving for Haiti right now," Chavez said outside the presidential palace when they emerged from their meeting. Sean Penn thanks Venezuela's Chavez for Haiti aid 2011-03-06T02:23:23Z

Actress and political activist Jane Fonda was last year’s recipient. Actress Lily Tomlin to be honored at Michigan film festival 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted a Russian Orthodox activist calling for the film, which shows dubious cooperation between the mayor and local clergy, not to be shown in Russia because it vilified the Russian Orthodox Church. Leviathan director: controversy shows film 'touched something' in Russia 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Greater media attention on crimes against women, protests by civil society groups, women-friendly government policies and even political campaigns to rally the female vote have helped embolden women, say activists. Nepal's rape victims shatter taboos to seek justice 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

For someone who was never an activist, I’ve certainly learned just how rewarding and important that can be. Jim Obergefell on what’s next for him and the LGBT community 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

She knows some readers will come to her novel for the sex and the fabulous shoes, but she’s hoping some will also respond to her activist message. This professor turned to erotic fiction to promote social change 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

In the early days, though, it was just a group of grassroots activists trying to make themselves heard. Sharon Tate: Unwitting victims’ rights martyr 2013-04-02T20:02:00Z

Political activists in the ’60s used to joke that “freedom is an endless meeting.” Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

This year, Jackson will recall one of its most difficult moments — June 12, 1963, when the civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in his driveway by a white supremacist. 36 Hours in Jackson, Miss. 2013-05-30T17:27:31Z

Youth activists plan a similar protest in San Sebastián, northern Spain, later this month. Summer lovin'? Not in angry Europe's tourist hotspots 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

Bohnak now calls himself an “activist” against mandatory employer vaccinations, which he calls a “violation of human rights.” When local reporters resist vaccination mandates, everyone in town hears about it 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Yeah, I helped a lot of people, but my job, so far as I’m concerned, is to move us forward, period,” explains the music executive, mediator, mentor and political activist in the documentary. The Black Godfather: the untold story of the man holding up Hollywood 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

It’s doubtful Silverman — or any accomplished comedian for that matter — would perform it today, let alone go on network TV to tell an Asian-rights activist they were wrong for taking offense to it. Maher’s been here before: Watch him defend using the n-word in 2001 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Several weeks later, the civil rights activist Robert Moses stepped onstage before a performance by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra to announce that Dr. King had been shot. Robert Caro and Carnegie Hall: Revisiting the ’60s 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

In 2013, a Russian activist was arrested in Spain after Russia requested a Red Notice. Red notice: 10 fascinating facts about Interpol 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

Security forces killed four protesters in Hama on Friday when they shot at people shouting anti-Assad slogans after weekly prayers, activists said. Suicide bomb kills 26 in Syria: interior minister 2012-01-06T18:06:07Z

Talking to a “digital-rights activist” while working for the data analytics start-up, Wiener asks him, tentatively, “Do you think I work at a surveillance company?” A Tech Insider Stylishly Chronicles Her Industry’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee died Wednesday at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y, her agent told The Hollywood Reporter. Ruby Dee, Oscar Nominated Actress and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 91 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The museum amended its listing and Charles L. Venable, its director and chief executive, resigned after a nine-year tenure as activists demanded new diversity commitments and employees sought an improved office culture. Indianapolis Museum Announces New Leadership After Reckoning on Racism 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vedder looked out at the crowd and saw “100 percent activists,” and echoed the insistent, can-do, online optimism that Global Citizen promotes. Review: Global Citizen Festival, Including Beyoncé and Pearl Jam, Mixes Music and Activism 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Sister Corita was an activist nun in the 1960s and 1970s. 'Someday Is Now' reflects influence of the '60s and Warhol on artist Sister Corita 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Many activists recall Act Up being mired in arguments and discord. Giant condoms and buckets of fake blood: the true story of Aids activists Act Up 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Although his speech was just 10 minutes long, Wonder offered a compelling voice for activists' arguments. Stevie Wonder lobbies UN over audiobooks for the visually impaired 2010-09-21T10:40:00Z

In September, police clashed with squatters and filled the streets with tear gas in the process of removing occupiers from another building downtown, and detained 70 activists. Brazil's occupying artists propel Bienal Sao Paulo's theme 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

During his extraordinary life he was at times a lawyer, activist, visionary and proponent of vegetarianism, a man who dedicated himself to the causes of social justice and minority rights. 'Great Soul': Joseph Lelyveld tells Mahatma Gandhi's larger-than-life story 2011-04-06T22:21:04Z

She quickly became acquainted with all the photo editors, shooting artists, writers and activists as they breezed through town, capturing the free-loving ambience of the swinging 1960s. From Einstein to Couture, This 96-Year-Old Captured It All 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Also, some of the activists I covered in the dissertation didn’t make it into the final book, which bums me out quite a bit. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Debating Pot in America 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

It may one day help to test my thesis that activist atheism reflects trauma. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z

The current controversy follows another in October, when curators at the Guggenheim Museum pulled three works from its fall exhibition, “Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World,” after protests from animal-rights activists. After Social Media Outcry, French Museum Removes Video of Burning Chickens 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

He quit his job just before Christmas, with the view to starting 2019 as a full-time activist. The doctor and banker who quit to join Extinction Rebellion: ‘You have to do what is right’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

He landed the role of Tommy Boatwright, a young gay activist in “The Normal Heart” who bucks up the main characters in their fight against AIDS. Theater: Jim Parsons Prepares for His Lead Role in ‘Harvey’ 2012-05-23T15:00:21Z

And everyone was excited to catch up with Jeremiah, their second of four children and a city council member who has been a loud voice in the “defund the police” movement gaining steam among activists. Americans want justice for George Floyd. Keith Ellison is in charge of getting it. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Martin refer to the conservative activists with the mocking sobriquet "sad puppies." John Scalzi conquers the publishing universe 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon, about 60 bicyclists met several dozen other activists to again protest outside the Canadian embassy, decrying oil exploration and extraction from the nation's tar sands. First big NATO summit protest today 2012-05-18T11:18:00Z

During the next two hours, the dinner conversation touched on all of the main de-extinction criticisms that I would hear from biologists and environmental activists in the following weeks. De-extinction won’t make us better conservationists! 2013-09-06T12:40:00Z

Now at No. 1 on the hardcover nonfiction list, “Unthinkable” is a celebration of citizen activists, public servants, survivors, family and hard-won, against-all-odds optimism. New Best Sellers Run the Gamut From Escapist to Galvanizing 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

You would hesitate to call it an image problem, but the anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman has had some representation issues lately. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Kerman appeared on a panel of journalists and activists to discuss the value of making education more accessible to currently and formerly incarcerated women. Orange is the New Black's Piper Kerman: 'Schools in prisons are a positive investment' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Zinn ultimately was an activist and it shone through his academic work as well as his more political essays. Howard Zinn's last testament to the immorality of war 2010-09-23T10:00:00Z

Now in his mid-40s, he lives outside Phnom Penh and is an activist in trying to preserve traditional Cambodian music. The Chilling Truths Behind Patricia McCormick’s YA Novels 2012-07-06T14:00:51Z

Desperate to protect a historic structure that once housed an apartment used by the poet and novelist Mikhail Lermontov's grandmother, activists in May agitated for a new Lermontov museum. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z

Today, at 45, the Seattle-born activist is America's pitch person for a new style of environmental message. Seattle native's 'Story of Stuff' videos go viral 2010-07-28T22:50:00Z

Russia’s largest cinema chain said on Tuesday it would not show the film, after receiving threats from religious activists and nationalists who deem it blasphemous. Kremlin pledges police to take on extremists angry over film about tsar's affair 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

In a world of mass shooters, Men’s Rights activists, Donald Trump supporters and Internet commenters, the last thing we need is another angry dude. What if Batman wasn’t a jerk? The Dark Knight should be more like Yoda, less like Kylo Ren 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

So in January the group surreptitiously travelled into the rebel-held town of Manbij in the northern region of Aleppo to perform live in an arts festival organised by local activists. Syrian satirists take puppet show into war-torn towns to mock Assad regime 2013-06-22T14:47:32Z

One of the activists left the tower Saturday and was initially charged with unlawfully boarding a ship. Actress Lucy Lawless arrested in oil-ship protest 2012-02-27T13:36:10Z

The Sunlight Project, on the other hand, is led by a German activist named Andreas Wolf. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

I knew the path to get there was an activist’s path, and I knew that these people were central. An Activist’s Path: A Q&A with the Oscar-nominated director of How to Survive a Plague 2013-02-21T13:00:05Z

In a speech, Ms. Kennedy said that studios, talent agencies and unions should create and fund a commission of labor specialists, lawyers, feminist thinkers and activists who would develop industrywide protections against harassment and abuse. Can Anita Hill Fix Hollywood’s Harassment Problem? 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Yet the word means disparate things to a housing activist, a tech executive, and an admissions dean, and they end up talking past one another. Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The film focuses on Josephat Torner, an albino activist who travels through the country challenging that myth spread by witch doctors. Critic’s Notebook: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013-06-12T22:54:26Z

In a statement Wednesday, the actor and activist said he’s “hopeful” the money will help “exceed the goal” of doubling the tiger population that exists in Nepal now. DiCaprio Foundation Donates $3 Million to WWF 2013-11-21T18:30:42Z

High-flown phrases pour from the mouths of activists at meetings, judges on the bench and politicians in the halls of Parliament. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Wilkerson meets with Edward Vaughn, a civil rights activist from the area who remembers a boycott of Branch’s grocery store after the killing and the woeful conditions at the hospital where Spann had been taken. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

I interviewed nearly 150 women's rights activists, religious leaders, officials and aid workers over the past decade in Somalia and Somaliland, where more than 99% of the population is Muslim. Muslim women are using Sharia to push for gender equality 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

A cartoonist and activist is held in Iran. Roundup: Vegas style in Turkmenistan, art's 'patron Satan,' fear of shiny planet 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

At the outset of Cook's visit to China, an activist group based in Hong Kong published an open letter, demanding "that Apple ensure decent working conditions at all its suppliers." Apple CEO in China mission to clear up problems 2012-03-27T10:38:02Z

Lu described instances of Christian activists protesting in front of the temple, including one pastor who attempted to perform an exorcism before the altar of the Rabbit God. Taiwan's gays pray for soul mates at 'Rabbit' temple 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Instead of contrasting the supremacists with the activists, alternating their actions until Bryon and Jenkins meet in the middle, the film goes off in other underdeveloped directions. In "Skin," a neo-Nazi turns from hate: Good intentions can't redeem this disaster of a film 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

It was the investment of everyday working-class and middle-class African-Americans but also the investment of black politicians, of black power brokers, of black activists. Jim Jones, deadly white savior: The tragic legacy of the Jonestown massacre 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

The other day he was reading a script, he said, and his wife, the athlete and activist Aimee Mullins, overheard him murmuring, “‘Oh, man. Rupert Friend Is Tired of Killing 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The legacy of Dent, an activist district attorney turned murderous lunatic, looms over this one, the literal and metaphysical personification of good intentions gone disastrously wrong. | 'The Dark Knight Rises’: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ With Christian Bale 2012-07-18T17:49:45Z

And Nigeria’s artists, historians, activists and royals have been seeking for decades to get the pieces back. Smithsonian to Return Most of Its Benin Bronze Collection to Nigeria 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

The novel’s narrator is, like Fuks himself, the child of leftist activists in Argentina’s Dirty War, now living in exile in São Paulo. Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Vision is hope, and hope is fuel for the activist. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Black, who has led the board since June 2018, announced his decision to step down after artists and activists protested his continued service as chairman, given his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Marie-Josée Kravis to Replace Leon Black as MoMA Chair 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated travel on interstate buses in the Deep South. 'Freedom Riders': The fight to end segregation 2010-12-21T17:39:15Z

But most have focused on the importance of calling one’s elected reps — a tactic that has left aspiring activists in the vote-deprived but heavily Democratic nation’s capital feeling a little useless. D.C. activists don’t have senators to call. So they found their own way to fight Trump. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Cook claimed she's an animal rights activist with a political agenda aimed at eliminating all traveling zoos, exhibitors and other such entertainments from the American landscape. Navy Pier shuts down white tigers 2012-01-25T03:52:00Z

While her year-long performance art piece, “Carry That Weight,” turned Sulkowicz alone into an activist icon practically overnight, one thing has always been clear: Her case is not the only case. Emma Sulkowicz was never alone: Report finds Columbia University repeatedly bungled sexual assault investigations 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Milena Popova is an independent scholar, activist, and consultant working on culture and sexual consent, and the author of "Sexual Consent," from which this article is excerpted. Using pornography to rewrite the script for consent 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Freedom Summer, when hundreds of activists, both black and white, flooded into Mississippi to campaign for civil rights. Weekend Reading: Illegal Organ Transplants, A Look Back at Freedom Summer, and More 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z

The protest was held by members of the vegan activist group Cube of Truth, The New York Post reports, outside of Sydney’s Town Hall in Australia. KFC-eating man trolls blindfolded vegan protesters during demonstration 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Jim Atchison, the company’s president and chief executive, insists most park guests “see the story for what it is — an activist agenda.” ‘Blackfish’s’ director finds it hard to move on 2014-03-20T17:38:26Z

When that process took too long, activists decided to merge the groups by appointing members of Friends of H.L. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The actor and social activist went on to call for Hollywood’s leaders to try to “expand that tent” for more diverse voices. Fonda says Hollywood needs more diversity after Globes honor 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

The Harlem-born civil rights activist and essayist had written a letter, titled “My Dungeon Shook,” to his 14-year-old nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. A civil rights photographer's march through years of American struggle 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

Something that abortion rights activists might not realize: In the 1980s when McCorvey was on their team, she would sometimes call Taft late at night. Perspective | ‘Jane Roe,’ from Roe v. Wade, made a stunning deathbed confession. Now what? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

A reading from the speeches, diaries and letters of Malcolm X will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and feature Kathleen Cleaver, the law professor and activist, and Darryl Pinckney, the novelist and playwright. Spare Times for Feb. 17-23 2012-02-16T22:35:12Z

Other filmmakers would follow in Morris’ legal activist footsteps. With 'The Jinx,' a long yet murky tradition of documentary activism 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Transgender activists are more visible than any time in American history. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Undaunted, members of his music label, Paper Route Empire, along with church volunteers and community activists, distributed dozens of turkeys, stuffing mix and cranberry sauce — and said “happy Thanksgiving” — to people driving past the church. Thanksgiving turkey giveaway honors slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Goodman is also a Black and queer activist who hosts a weekly podcast, “Black Folx,” which features conversations about diverse Black voices. Brandon Kyle Goodman, a Nonbinary Voice of ‘Big Mouth’ 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

How many of these "activist" types even understand that. In Canada, Hunting and Preserving an Indigenous Way of Life 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Looking around the room, I realized that this group was one of hardened political thinkers — lawyers, a legislator, political organizers, businesspeople and activists. Study abroad — at any age 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

She has spoken publicly, repeatedly, about her impending death, both as an artist reflecting on her creative life and as an activist for allowing terminally ill patients to take charge of the dying process. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activist Courtland Cox contends in the documentary: “The assumption is that, at some time, it stopped. And that’s not the case. It never stopped.” Traveling While Black: behind the eye-opening VR documentary on racism in America 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Her Mexican still lifes, with cartridge belts and sickles piled on guitars, exploit the activist potential of visual beauty, though, disappointingly, the show offers no fresh insights into them, or into Modotti’s heavily mythologized life. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Later, he released a video for his song, “Caro,” that stars a woman dressed as him and includes two drag queens, a move heralded as progressive by activists and fans. Record labels said Latin trap was ‘going nowhere.’ Billions of YouTube views proved them wrong. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the 1960s and 1970s activists fought, and ultimately defeated, a plan by Con Edison to build a plant on Storm King Mountain on the river’s west bank in New York. Can Art Help Save the Planet? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

A pioneering gay rights activist who chronicled the movement’s earliest days through her photography and writing. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

“It is our hope that this film helps bring an activist into existence at least that often.” Watch Kathryn Bigelow's Short Film About Elephant Poaching 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

A large contingent of activists urging the impeachment of Donald Trump also joined the march, as did veterans of the Vietnam war. 'Nobody works like Jane': hundreds join Fonda at latest climate protest 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

What binds together most activist members of this generation is a mixture of populist anger and political savoir-faire. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and America’s Most Liberal Generation 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

The easiest way to run a hole through arguments about social justice is to denounce the activists as enemies of the people. Jeanette Winterson: 100 years after the suffragettes 2013-03-29T15:59:01Z

For these activists and thinkers, there are many ways to fight against urban divides in the interest of all people’s rights to the city. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

When, last summer, the Whitney Museum of American Art tried to hustle up a show of new activist work but failed to pay some of the artists involved, the effort was met with outrage. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

There’s so much to take in — including the perennial topic of celebrities as activists — but Ms. Rostock doesn’t linger long. | 'Sing Your Song': ?Sing Your Song,? Documentary About Harry Belafonte - Review 2012-01-12T23:04:54Z

To the activists seeking justice for McDonald, this was a necessary step in the right direction. 16 Shots: behind a shocking film about an unlawful police shooting 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

As the unlikely activist Mildred Loving, in “Loving,” Ruth Negga exhibits such a quiet dignity that it takes one’s breath away. Best women: The 10 best actresses of 2016 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

And it’s uncomfortable, put mildly, to see an established white male journalist suggest that an activist and writer of color hasn’t “done anything” to “win your attention.” #CancelColbert turns ugly: Why does it make white people so angry to talk about race? 2014-03-28T23:00:00Z

The video follows a group of jaded L.G.B.T. activists marching around New York chanting “No K.K.K., no fascist U.S.A., no Trump.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Ossie Davis, the actor and civil rights activist, called the film “one of the most important things I have seen on the screen in a long time.” Don Hunstein, Who Photographed Great Musicians, Dies at 88 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Tea Party activists regularly conjure highly emotive narratives of an idealized American past that never really existed, one that effectively erases our historical social, race and gender inequalities. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z

But because she could host only a couple of the Pride shows, Landau turned to the costume designer and activist Qween Jean to handle the other two. ‘The Big Mix’: Little Island’s 3-Week Party 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Gere is a longtime activist for Tibet, the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles. Richard Gere visits Buddhist temple in South Korea 2011-06-21T10:15:09Z

Education activists had long argued that the government would save money if it brought the lending in-house. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z

Robson, a mental health activist, is certainly excited about Silver Action's potential to change the way she feels about growing older. Tate Modern's women's liberation army 2013-01-29T18:23:46Z

Officers wearing Chicago Police uniforms raided an apartment in Bridgeport late Wednesday and detained at least eight activists without justification, lawyers working on behalf of protesters alleged today. Protesters' lawyers allege improper arrests 2012-05-18T01:55:00Z

It will also feature weather updates from Swedish teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who has led global youth anger at potentially catastrophic climate change. Weather reports from Greta Thunberg as cult UK show 'Spitting Image' returns 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

It’s usually what you get from activists, intellectuals, lawyers, people who are not popularly elected. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

Brianna: I will say that sometimes the more popular elder activists are reformist. These Teen Girls Are Fighting for a More Just Future 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The CBS variety program began as a music-filled comedy show, often geared towards a younger audience but quickly became political, with sketches on the screen that mirrored what activists were fighting for on the streets. How late-night political comedy needs to evolve: Be more subversive 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Bates was an activist and mentor to the nine black children who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Daisy Bates, Johnny Cash statues headed to US Capitol 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

From the beginning, legislators, policymakers and activists clashed as some tried to extend, and others to limit, the law’s reach and power. Title IX at 50: How it Changed Congress, Campuses and Sports 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The letter’s implication was that the play had softened Mr. Robeson’s positions as a political dissident, a black activist and an avowed socialist. Phillip Hayes Dean, the Playwright of Divisive ‘Paul Robeson,’ Dies at 83 2014-04-23T03:06:19Z

After Mr Miranda, the son of a political activist, performed a version at the White House in 2009, Mr Obama leapt to his feet in a spontaneous standing ovation. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

A separate petition by environmental activists urged the museums to remove him from their respective boards. David H. Koch Leaves Natural History Museum Board 1455-04-09T05:00:00Z

In San Francisco there’s just a huge overlapping of artists, activists and sex work communities. “Porn stars are the gladiators of the entertainment industry” 2014-03-15T23:00:00Z

It is an opportunity for partisan lawyers to burrow into the arcana of the process in hopes of tweaking the rules in their favor and for activists to sharpen their rhetoric for the next fight. The dark, crazy heart of Florida is on full display — again — at the election recount 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Recent titles worth seeing: “Crip Camp,” on Netflix, a documentary about a summer camp for the disabled in the Catskills and the campers who went on to become activists in the American disability rights movement. VOD, Streaming or Virtual Cinema? Your Guide to Digital Movie Options 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, the city of Newport Beach settled two lawsuits involving the museum and local activists. Thom Mayne design unveiled for future home of Orange County Museum of Art 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Last fall, scholars, chefs and activists hosted an Appalachian food summit in Abingdon, Va., to examine how the region’s food heritage can boost local economies. The next big thing in American regional cooking: Humble Appalachia 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

This was the space that would come to serve Chicano activists so well by the time the 1960s rolled around. Why artists want to preserve church tied to L.A.'s Chicano movement 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

He was an activist and educator in his own right. Ratsie’s in College Park is closing, and a slice of life is slipping away 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Steve Isaac stands out as Mike, a gruff bartender and Occupy activist, who has a lot to say about Charlie’s hopes and dreams. ‘The Program Assistant’ at Capital Fringe Festival hits on harsh truth of post-grad life

The Warren court, after all, was a famously activist court. A Supreme Court for the Rich 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

But they were more than performers; they were also activists who fought for civil rights, particularly for blacks. Daughter: Actress Ruby Dee dead at 91 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

I can be an activist and I can also play music that makes people feel good and that's healing. Venus X: 'I don't like pretending to be stupid' 2012-06-09T23:05:07Z

Their results: By providing easily identifiable shirts, nametags and carts, the project has changed bottle picking from an activity tinted with shame to a proudly activist endeavour. Take your environmental concern to the next level – join a group creating change 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Rights activist Alexeyeva, 85, said she was certain the women would be convicted, because to clear them would embarrass both church and state and cast doubt over the grounds for their arrest. Pussy Riot trial over Putin altar protest due to begin 2012-07-30T02:00:01Z

Abiola is a Nigerian activist who is president of Women in Africa, a group that supports African women with high potential, and the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy. Steinem among winners of National Civil Rights Museum award 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

After the years of recession there were suddenly jobs that hadn’t existed before for many artists and activists. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

If they began as actresses, they are now theater activists. Eve Ensler on a new play and beating cancer 2012-11-21T14:27:08Z

That endeavour became the Centre for Coastal Studies – initially a two-man activist organization, and now a hub for scientific research and coastal stewardship. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Of course the networks used to do activist journalism, and even oppositional journalism. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z

The cafe entrance is framed by a huge polychrome mural painted by the housing equality activist and street artist Blu. In Rome, Industrial Ruins Take On a Colorful New Profile 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Four years ago, Tarana Burke was a devoted but little-known activist with a vision for how victims of sexual violence could find empathy and healing. The Surprising Origins of #MeToo 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

“You were successful on some aspects but not on others,” the committee told the youth activists in a letter, in which it saluted their “courage and determination.” United Nations panel tells youth climate activists it can’t rule on rights case 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

The series focuses on environmental journalists and activists in the country’s vast, forested interior, where 57 environmental defenders were killed in 2017. ‘It’s our problem’: Brazilian drama brings Amazon rainforest battle to screen 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

The group is debuting a new set of original music, composed by all three leaders, inspired by female artists and writers, including the activist Angela Davis and the Israeli poet Zelda. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Scan the Twitter feeds of a handful of reliable, well-known, veteran activists, and the evidence is there. Kim Kardashian meets Trump and critiques that don't reek of sexism 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Brooklyn residents, along with Breukelen Rise, an activist group that serves at-risk youth and their families, too issue with the 40 Ounce Water package – which is designed to look like a bottle of malt liquor. Community residents outraged over '40 Ounce' water bottle packaging: 'It’s offensive' 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Well, guess what, with a little help from grass-roots viral marketing, the activists turn out to have been right. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

"It was a huge relief when he was released," said Abdullah Abaakil, an activist with the February 20 movement that introduced the rapper at the news conference. Morocco's rebel rapper released from prison 2013-03-29T19:53:09Z

In the U.S., young activists are fighting for the Green New Deal and emphasizing an environmental-justice politics that prioritizes those who are already being displaced by climate change. The Faces of Young Protesters at New York City’s Climate Strike 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Ai was detained in April during a Chinese crackdown on activists. Exhibit by Chinese artist focuses on his absence 2011-10-28T11:59:10Z

Lawless and six activists climbed the tower early Friday in an attempt to raise awareness about oil drilling in the Arctic. Actress Lucy Lawless arrested in oil-ship protest 2012-02-26T23:04:20Z

The Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel in Jackson, Miss., where civil rights activists gathered in the 1960s. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

Hundreds of activists gathered a month ago in the Manhattan park two blocks from Wall Street to vent their anger at what they see as the excesses of New York financiers. Protesters refuse to leave for park cleaning 2011-10-13T17:27:00Z

After Monday's verdict there were brief scuffles outside the court as the defendants' supporters clashed with Orthodox activists angry that the defendants were set free. Russian curators sentenced but not imprisoned 2010-07-12T14:44:00Z

Our tour guide for Deanna's search for justice is Kit Gruelle, a survivor and advocate who educates future activists and trains police on how to handle domestic violence calls. 'Private Violence' tackles abused woman's search for justice 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The book’s author, professor and activist David Pilgrim, began collecting racist items as a child, and now presents them at the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University in Michigan. “President Obama has been a cottage industry for racist imagery and racist memorabilia”: Why understanding the history of Jim Crow is still essential 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Leading human rights activist and anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu appeared in a video message and called for men to stand up for girls and women. Beyonce headlines sell-out UK gig to promote gender equality 2013-06-01T22:14:43Z

The activist, on the other hand, has few such commensurately developed representatives. On TV, protesters are faceless rabble while cops are bestowed with humanity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

In a new interview with the New Yorker, the actor/activist said he still doesn’t see a strong black voice present in contemporary times. The 5 most important times celebs of color stood up against racism in 2017 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

If the statues themselves are flimsy, the governmental and societal bolts that keep them in place are strong, as some activists have learned. Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

The only way to avoid this fate, all of these authors agree, is a smart, activist government dedicated to protecting its citizens’ interests. What Data Has Done to Capitalism 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

In this context, the performance of nostalgia in "My Old Kentucky Home" reinforced the "happy slave" stereotype that pro-slavery activists deployed to defend slavery as a benevolent institution. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

Over the last five years, she has overseen an activist group called Prescription Addiction Intervention Now, or PAIN, which draws attention to the pharmaceutical companies that have profited from the opioid epidemic. Nan Goldin is Second Major Artist to Exit Marian Goodman Gallery 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

We wrote about how campaign rhetoric stokes the passions of keyboard racists targeting activists and leftist writers with Auschwitz images and twisted lynching fantasies. An open letter to the “Ivanka voters” I grew up with: I hope you get what you want 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Backed by actor and activist Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, the festival began in the 1980s to promote movies made outside Hollywood's mainstream studios, and this year's theme is renewing the independence it first championed. 2010-01-22T05:52:00Z

A casebook published by activist groups and a lawyers' organization in 2011 showed dozens of reported cases of anti-gay discrimination, bullying and hate crimes in South Korean schools. SKorea's gay film maker in news over wedding plans 2013-06-01T04:35:09Z

“This is crazy. S--- is getting messy,” said Jason Walker, a community activist and Brown voter who was hanging out at a polling site just to watch the action. Who’s afraid of India Walton? 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Some neighborhood activists opposed a project they saw as threatening to turn their affordable community into another pricey, tourist-driven South Beach. No Room Service, but History’s on the Menu 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

For four decades, he has produced boundary-stretching works addressing racism, homophobia, migration and colonialism, from experimental documentaries to lavish multiscreen installations; in all of them an activist spirit is counterbalanced with opulent imagery and sound. Looking for Freedom, Isaac Julien Comes Home 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

The final bars were more solemn than activist. András Schiff and the L.A. Philharmonic join Haydn for a look at war 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

The food thrown at famous works of art by climate activists can, in a way, be seen as a medium of inclusion. Why food is such a powerful symbol in political protest 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

In fact, it’s the activists and idealists like you who always take it on the chin. What Should I Do About My Rage? 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

As the years went on, he became an activist of sorts, travelling to Nicaragua to perform political satire about the U.S. government and the Contras. Barry Crimmins’s Hard Truths 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

In the 1970s, when Ms. Minter’s career began, a great many feminist artists were taking their clothes off — for photo-based activist and conceptual work, for performances and for paintings. Lush Morsels From an Artist’s Erotic Imagination 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Izvestia also quoted a Russian Orthodox activist calling for the film, which shows dubious cooperation between the mayor and local clergy, not to be shown in Russia because it vilifies the Russian Orthodox Church. Oscar-nominated 'Leviathan' ruffles feathers in Russia 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Various artists have recently come under heavy pressure from activists to boycott Israel because of its treatment of the Palestinians. Pixies call off Israel concert after Gaza raid 2010-06-06T10:54:00Z

Mental health activist and author of "The Precipice of Mental Health: Becoming Your Own Safe Space," Achea Redd recommends finding time to do something creative or spending time outside. Identifying stress and anxiety amid Russia, Ukraine war and how to cope 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

The decision was met with disappointment and anger from charities and activists, who continue to call for non-binary people to be recognised under law. United becomes first airline to introduce non-binary gender option on bookings 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The issue salutes the activists, innovators and role models who are making a difference. Vanessa Bryant still perseveres after Kobe, Gigi’s death 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

It was the sort of big-tent anthem meant for group singalong, a throwback to an outmoded idea of what activist music might mean. Global Citizen Festival Brings Stars to Central Park 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Yet, following Chappelle's logic, he and other unrepentant bigots are the real victims of trans people and activists who merely want their gender identities to be acknowledged and treated with respect. Dave Chappelle and the warped self-victimhood of transphobes 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Films of this stripe are legion, though the most irritating example remains “Mississippi Burning,” in which two F.B.I. agents are at the center of an investigation into the murder of civil rights activists. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z

But the participants, at least in their roles at the Gazette, are more activists than journalists. ArtsBeat: Editors Occupy Cooper Union to Discuss the 99 Percent 2012-05-07T16:56:24Z

Those same activists say, however, that Sallie Mae sabotaged the government’s new direct lending program through aggressive lobbying, even as it rapidly built up its own portfolio of both government-backed student loans and private loans. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z

As a trade-union activist, socialist and pacifist, he made a reluctant conscript. Books of The Times: ‘Poilu,’ a French Memoir About Serving on the Western Front 2014-04-20T21:11:41Z

And with the gathering armies of Act Up activists standing outside the doors, they marched into the halls of science as unwanted – then begrudgingly accepted, then admired – collaborators. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

But if abortion becomes illegal again in some parts of the country, then what we’re watching becomes a story about activists who were criminals then and would be criminals now. Perspective | What will post-Roe America look like? Let’s look at pre-Roe America. 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

The city started to demolish that building months ago, but the process was halted by protests from activists and community members. Chinatown Museum Gets $3 Million After Fire Threatens Its Archives 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Among the most famous activists to use humor to draw international attention to Syria’s plight was Raed Fares, who inspired many with his messages of nonviolent resistance and his use of satire. For these Syrian artists, humor is essential to coping with oppression and war 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Using humor, but also your smarts and your skills, whether you're a cabaret singer or a political activist. On a mission to make America bake again 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

He spoke to Reuters days after dozens of anti-fur activists disrupted British fashion house Burberry’s show at the event and heckled celebrities including rapper Stormzy and model Naomi Campbell as they arrived. Fashion doesn't need to kill animals: British designer MacDonald 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

They reminisced about their activist days in Chicago. Bernie Sanders’ hippie 20s: Drugs, free love and Vietnam! 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

There are really only two questions for activists: What do you want to achieve?  Hey, left wing: Quit griping! 2012-09-27T14:00:00Z

Keith spent more than a week hanging around the BLM encampment, acting as something of a liaison between the Clark family, the politicians in charge and the activists. Americans want justice for George Floyd. Keith Ellison is in charge of getting it. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The legacy of colorism has meant that the work of certain activists has been minimized. 'Cops only tackled me and my friend': why a dark skin tone makes activism dangerous 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Through it all, however, he developed a formidable career first as a writer and now as a motivational speaker and activist. Writer-activist Kevin Powell says his new memoir tells 'a human story' 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

An activist lawyer’s account of a man wrongfully convicted of murder reads like a call to action. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Workers across the spectrum are demanding more and feel like they have more power,” said Patricia Campos-Medina, a longtime labor activist who serves as executive director of Cornell University’s Worker Institute. The Pandemic Struck Orchestras With Underlying Conditions Hard 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The "Call for a New Conversation" brings together 74 well-known activists, writers and scholars, on both the left and the right, described by Mark Oppenheim in the article "Traditional Marriage's Activist's New Allies: Gays." Motherlode Blog: Does Championing Marriage Exclude Single Parents? 2013-01-29T23:41:21Z

In it, Henry Nevinson, a social activist and journalist, castigates the Times newspaper for its hawkish stance. First World War Centenary: Manchester Guardian urged caution when war broke in 1914 2013-06-11T16:32:00Z

I also report on Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, the activist Chicano lawyer and noted author of two semi-autobiographical novels that are staples of Chicano and psychedelic lit. Essential Arts & Culture: Our spring arts preview, more silence from MOCA, a feminist 'Shrew' 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

This is a man who commands solidarity from anti-censorship activists around the world, condemns those who hesitate in giving it, but is slow to offer it himself. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z

And one activist seeks to shame them, shouting that they are all the same age and share similar concerns. Film: To Take Up Arms or Not? A Film Joins the Debate 2010-10-02T23:20:00Z

But then as Jeanne Theoharis shows in “A More Beautiful and Terrible History,” civil rights activists half a century ago faced a similarly hostile reception. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

A new cultural revolution is at hand, and many of its leaders are even more smug and self-righteous than the counterculture activists who, back in the 1960s, also thought they could change the world. The TV Watch: Nerds Get Their Due on ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Veep’ 2014-04-04T00:00:25Z

My friend and her husband are artists, academics and activists. Motherlode Blog: Occupying Wall Street With Your Kids 2011-10-27T19:41:49Z

It was intercepted by Israeli forces and nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed. Haneen Zoabi: 'Israel is the only country not shocked by or afraid of Trump' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Some questioned what Princess Gloria had in common with an institution that was started inside a public school classroom by a group of Puerto Rican artists and activists. El Museo del Barrio Drops Plan to Honor German Socialite 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Police arrested actress Lucy Lawless and five Greenpeace activists Monday, four days after they climbed onto an oil-drilling ship to prevent it from leaving a New Zealand dock. Actress Lucy Lawless arrested in oil-ship protest 2012-02-27T13:36:10Z

Through this time period, the activists and politicians depicted experience countless versions of no before they hear a yes on meaningful intervention into the climate crisis. ‘To the End’ Review: Seeing Red While Left on Read 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

Keyboard Activists in the Online Universe The activist newsreel outfits that sprang up with the protests of the 1960s sent back glimpses of crowds, police lines, campuses and streets abuzz. Movie Review: ‘We Are Legion,’ on Computer Hacker-Activists 2012-10-18T23:03:19Z

Gay rights activists challenge that claim, citing support from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, among other organizations. 2010-01-21T08:07:00Z

This incident, along with later racist encounters, including in 1951, when he integrated the University of North Carolina Law School, fueled his career as an activist. The Black American City That Almost Came to Be 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Oscar de la Renta will terminate all fur sales at the urging of Ms. Eilish, who is a vegan and animal rights activist. Billie Eilish Sets a Condition for Her Dress: No More Fur 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Working alone and with white allies, Black activists and scholars continue using cartography to tell a fuller story about the United States, to challenge racial segregation and to combat violence. How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

“I was never into women’s lib, and I’m not an activist in any way,” Ms. Bass said. A Pioneering Pilot, a Broadway Show and a Life-Changing Bond 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said the study showed that “instead of the drastic reductions desperately needed, our CO2 emissions keep increasing.” European Union predicts it won’t meet its goal for cutting greenhouse gases 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

It still seems like a giant step from the flashy Cannes red carpet to thoughtful, eco-conscious jewelry activists. Red-Carpet Jewels Go 'Green' in Cannes 2013-05-15T13:37:02Z

The brother took me to one of these schools and with another activist named Pete Swift Bird. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

I’m particularly fascinated by the week in February, 1968 that entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte hosted the Tonight Show in place of Johnny Carson. Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Extinction Rebellion, the climate activists, have announced plans to disrupt London Fashion Week. Immigration! Influencers! Climate Change! What to Expect This Fashion Month 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Kimmel’s background is as an activist, and he wants not just research but policy changes. Michael Kimmel is out to show why feminism is good for men 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Berg has said that she rejects the movement and does not intend to invite any B.D.S. activists to discussions at the Jewish Museum. New Director Sees Berlin’s Jewish Museum as a Place for Debate 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

About a decade later, an outing activist threw a drink in Gunderson’s face at a bar, reportedly because he hadn’t endorsed a gay-rights measure. Meet two activists who brought sweeping change to the gay rights movement

I made the questionable decision to interrupt and discovered someone far warmer than her persona as a terrifying political activist would suggest. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

To ensure the veracity of “The Nightingale,” she asked Jim Everett, a Tasmanian, Aboriginal elder, playwright and activist, to serve as an adviser. When Rape Onscreen Is Directed by a Woman 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Historians, journalists and civic activists will continue to fish in these rich informational waters for some time if the organization does not collapse. T Magazine: The Gift of Information 2010-12-04T15:00:00Z

I thought “activist,” and even “accidental,” might be a bit rich. Exploring Rock Hudson’s Legacy Through a New Lens 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

The characters in your short story "The Anarchist's Convention," for example, are aging activists. Lit Fest: Sayles stays rooted in change 2011-06-01T21:26:00Z

Movement activists called for much more than equality. Canada's LGBTQ coin glosses over radical struggles: When did gay liberation come to mean equality? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

The pair met with Ramona Ripston, an activist at the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, which had fought cases on behalf of the Black Panthers and conscientious objectors to the draft. How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

I could have introduced him to Sue Marsh, the disabled activist and blogger who is speaking on a panel addressing the harsh realities of the coalition's ideological austerity. Glastonbury festival still has political fire in its belly 2013-06-13T10:35:13Z

Actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood in HBO's "Phoenix Rising," a two-part documentary about her experience as a survivor of domestic violence. Evan Rachel Wood's "Phoenix Rising" and the art of trauma 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Kadyrov, whom human rights activists accuse of persecuting opponents, praised Seagal last month after the actor visited Chechnya and performed an improvised lezginka, a traditional Chechen dance in the capital, Grozny. Steven Seagal becomes the face of Russian arms firm 2013-06-05T12:44:00Z

Groups of activists around the world came together, determinedly but also non-violently, not just to protest at the criminality of the banks and their backers, but also to put into practice another way. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-30T14:00:01Z

In his final years, Bourdain attained a new sort of celebrity as an activist, a revered elder statesman, and an overt and uncompromising figure of moral authority. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Stories of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

See the film, and you will get encouragement and inspiration for what you are doing now as activists … which is all of you who now live on this planet. Mind over mattress: Yoko Ono remembers the bed-in 2012-06-21T12:00:55Z

He had become part of Occidental's activist network, participating in a vigil protesting against the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z

Named for Laurence Housman — peace activist, suffragist and younger brother of the poet A.E. 36 Hours in King’s Cross, London 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Official reports put the death toll at 25, but rights activists say as many as 350 may have been killed. Films highlight Mexico's dark political past 2012-06-14T18:28:11Z

He first met him in 1990, when the prime minister was a Hindu ascetic and political activist who laughed often, though never with his eyes. Witness to a landslide 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Petroski acknowledges the contemporary role of activists such as MacAdams in a chapter on historic preservation, arguing that antiquated infrastructure like Manhattan's High Line can find new, socially beneficial uses. The freeway that looked like the future in 1940? Now, not so much. Nathan Masters on 'The Road Taken' 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Another activist, Ash Kotak, recalls an action involving the singer Jimmy Somerville, who was a vital figurehead, championing and funding the cause. Giant condoms and buckets of fake blood: the true story of Aids activists Act Up 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

And I see that parents, some of them, if you just follow some of the organizations — the Moms for Liberty — you see this is a regeneration of activists who have been in various formations. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s left to the activists in the film to go beyond visibility and shut the institutions down. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

That’s why Trump’s birtherism — the support he gave to the lie that Barack Obama was born abroad — never disqualified his candidacy, even as it helped him “forge a powerful connection with party activists.” How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Belafonte, second from left, in Chicago in 1966 with, from left, Sidney Poitier, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and the civil rights activist Al Raby. Harry Belafonte: A Life in Photos 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Political activists on the left have not forgiven the Roberts court for its 5-4 ruling last year that struck down the long-standing bans on corporations and unions spending freely on election campaigns. Crucial issues await Supreme Court 2011-10-03T01:42:00Z

Civil rights activists, the three men were detained by the police in Mississippi on bogus charges and handed over to a gang of Klansmen, who proceeded to shoot them and bury them in a dam. The Journalist and the Murderers 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Poet, playwright, producer, director, conductor, actor, best-selling author and social activist discusses her works. The Week Ahead: Moisture Festival, Jewish Film Fest are A&E highlights 2011-03-10T01:38:11Z

The film includes interviews with Israelis, Palestinians, journalists, human rights workers and activists on both sides. Critic?s Notebook: Faces on Film Add Humanity To the News 2011-06-15T22:24:44Z

Moments later, Ms. Coleman, a vegan and animal rights activist who had trouble finding diet-compatible dates, walked into the cafe to witness another unbelievable sight. Falling Head Over Heels in Yoga Class 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

The next morning, over in Public Square, immigration activists formed a human wall, using fabric ponchos painted like bricks, and chanted “Wall off Trump!” This is what it feels like at the Republican convention in Cleveland 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Stephenson was awarded £500 in damages, and the case was a declaration that the activists would not tolerate being smeared. Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

He duped several politicians and gun rights activists into making public service announcements for an initiative that would arm children as young as 3. Sacha Baron Cohen Is Duping Republicans. Is He the James O’Keefe of the Left? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Confronted by his impending death, Jarman mocks what he saw as useless slogans, such as “Living with Aids”, blurted out by charities and fellow activists. From Philadelphia to 120 BPM: the changing face of Aids in film 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Accompanying it was a second letter signed by activists and women’s rights organizations, which read, “As activists, we welcome the call from our entertainment industry sisters to unite to call time on harassment and abuse.” Time’s Up Descends on Baftas as ‘Three Billboards’ Wins 5 Awards 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

Ms. Cummings, a choreographer and arts activist, will lead a discussion with guests from the neighboring disciplines of anthropology, philosophy, religion and dance criticism, exploring the ways personal history shapes perception. Dance Listings for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The passionate star, also an outspoken activist for social justice and equal rights, joined me on "Salon Talks" for a sobering conversation about the current state of politics and race relations in America. "My art is my activism": "Pose" star Billy Porter unleashes his passion and doesn't hold back 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Miller, a writer and activist who lives in Washington, beautifully recounts playing baseball as a child in the South Bronx. Review | Poetry that explores love and aggression, baseball and the natural world 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, the anti-street harassment activist group Hollaback released a video of a young woman walking around New York City for a day, experiencing more than a hundred instances of harassment from men. Here’s What It’s Like to Walk the Streets of NYC as a White Man, According to Funny or Die 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

That year, women’s liberation movement activists stormed the stage on live television. Gugu Mbatha-Raw: ‘It’s an actor’s duty to help the culture to evolve’ 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

Was Lyndon B. Johnson a civil rights mastermind, or a reluctant follower pulled along by activists led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson in 'Selma’ Raises Hackles 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

There is a right-wing network of activists, interest groups, politicians and media figures who are trying to remake American education in radical ways. Professor targeted by right for teaching course on “white racism”: “These folks are delusio... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Fonda, who said she hoped to inspire other older activists, revealed she planned to get arrested every Friday during protests. Jane Fonda accepts Bafta award during arrest at climate protest 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

The Tesco demonstration is part of its Feminist Fridays campaign – monthly events where activists protest against lads' mags and other forms of sexism. Lads' mags: the great cover-up 2010-10-15T06:00:00Z

Fewer than 10 minutes later, police began arresting the activists inside as Chua and others encouraged the crowd outside to raise their voices. Youth groups are thinking outside the box when voting 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

It reveals a crucial question about how we respond to activists: When should we push back — and when should we wait and see where they lead us? Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Maybe the best way to describe "Moby Doc," the new documentary about the Grammy-nominated musician, DJ and activist, is to say that David Bowie and David Lynch feature prominently in it. Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Authorities detained several activists last month after attending a meeting about the protests, including prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, prompting concern in the United States and Europe. China defends Tiananmen crackdown on eve of 25th anniversary 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

In his article, Coates is unstinting, yet lyrical, in his criticism of the powerful forces of America’s past and the decision-makers and activists of its present. With Atlantic article on reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates sees payoff for years of struggle

The second season starts Sunday with 25 activists who will try to win the audience's support for a top prize of $2.5 million. Mexico reality TV show seeks to spur social action 2011-09-03T19:46:03Z

To play Ken Jones, a gay-rights activist who struggles with H.I.V., in the ABC docudrama “When We Rise,” he drew upon gay nephews who had died. Michael K. Williams Brought His Whole Life to His Characters 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Then he left Republicans marginalized as Democrats worked on the Affordable Health Care Act, further fueling tea party activists. Snowe presses for bipartisanship in new book 2013-05-12T12:55:08Z

In 1977, his Lagos compound was burned down, and his activist mother killed, in a Nigerian army raid. Get-up-and-dance ‘Fela!’ coming to Seattle May 28-June 2 2013-05-22T23:12:41Z

At least half of the activists profiled have been heroes of mine since my teens. Letters from magazine readers 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Paul Boneberg, a hippie who tried commune life, became involved in an early activist organization, Mobilization Against AIDS. 'We Were Here' honors united AIDS community 2011-11-10T22:18:04Z

For now, a show like “Fun Home” is the perfect package, representing everything she loves about being an actor and an activist. 'Fun Home' star and Actors' Equity President Kate Shindle's activist state of mind 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Lives weren’t on the line in the making of the film, and nothing in it suggests any sort of immodest or vainglorious comparison of a film crew to heroic and epochal activists. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

To call him an activist feels like an implausible label, and he agrees at once. Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

Pinto’s underground activist Jas Mitra was a formidable character, leading from the front. Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

In the past few months, Clinton, at 65, has become the Blurber-in-Chief, an activist health convert who has enthusiastically endorsed three diet books. Galley Girl: Bill Clinton Has a Healthy Appetite for Diet Books 2012-01-02T15:51:03Z

This advice from a tea party blogger for thousands of activists heading to Saturday's rally is drawing a rebuke from city leaders and residents. Blogger calls DC dangerous for Glenn Beck rally 2010-08-27T20:15:00Z

In her real life as an activist, an author, a public personality and a prolific social media presence, Lena Dunham has become an object of ridicule. Lena Dunham’s Girls: the show that turned TV upside down 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

“Q” can mean “questioning” or “queer,” an umbrella term itself, formerly derogatory before it was appropriated by gay activists in the 1990s. Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z

She burned to establish the Vanderbilts in a New York high society that shunned them, then turned her back on that by becoming an activist for women’s suffrage. More than a statue: Cooper explores the Vanderbilt legacy 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Off screen Fonda is well known as a political activist, protesting against the war in Vietnam in the 1970s, and campaigning for other causes such as equal rights and the environment. Fonda honoured with AFI film award 2013-10-04T09:07:25Z

To that end, he interweaves his own story with that of the Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who campaigned against destructive oil extraction on behalf of his Ogoni people. Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

To be an activist, or, more specifically, to be Davis, is to be a polarizing figure, misunderstood and detested and beloved all at once. Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

He told the film blogger Jeff Brummett recently that he wished he had made more films, but that he was proud of what he had accomplished, both as a filmmaker and as an activist. Jamaa Fanaka, Film Director, Dies at 69 2012-04-12T23:46:44Z

There's a mystery involving the disappearance of O'Connor's character's husband, an environmental activist, but Martin's search for clues is desultory. 'The Hunter': Trapped in a slow-moving but pretty tale 2012-04-19T20:23:07Z

Binoche and the other activists work with the French Conference of Bishops on environmental themes, which were highlighted by Francis in a 2015 encyclical which exhorted all persons of good will to protect the Earth. Binoche, other French environmentalists get pope’s backing 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

See More » Your father, the Rev. C. L. Franklin, was a prominent civil rights activist and a Baptist preacher. Aretha Franklin on Singing for Pope Francis and Her Next Album 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

She appears alongside an egotistical activist nun, a trans woman feeling her family on the outside slip away from her, an inmate happily carrying a guard’s baby. SAG Awards: “Orange Is the New Black” cast award is a big win for women 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Of the 14 Los Angeles residents interviewed for this article — excluding activists and politicians who pushed for the Freedom to Walk act — 11 said they were looking forward to the change. Los Angeles Pedestrians Look Forward to Relaxed Jaywalking Law 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, feminists, disability activists and other ethicists have raised important concerns about the normalization of cosmetic surgeries and the pressure to achieve "perfect" looks. "Love Island": how women with "fake" faces have been belittled throughout history 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z

Ani considers himself an activist first, and says his writing is in service of that work. A ‘Lucky Child’ Writes His Way From Nigeria to the Global Stage 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z

But while “Selma” acknowledges the importance of men in power, its heart is with the activists on the ground in Selma. In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

As a teenager, the autistic writer and activist Temple Grandin longed to feel the pressure stimulation of a hug. The power of touch: what will it be like when we can all connect again? 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

Looking around at the various angry constituencies, it’s hard to draw conclusions about what kind of voter or citizen or activist anger creates. The Power of Enraged Women 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

I interviewed one of the Parkland student activists last week, and she tells me that that is one of the biggest misconceptions of the movement. Exclusive premiere: The Revivalists release anti-gun violence anthem “Shoot You Down” 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

These men are soon rolling up their sleeves to terrorize activists and anyone else considered a threat to their government. Review: ‘Olvidados’ Revisits Rightist Terror in South America 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Icon Ebony-Fierce, a 30-year-old activist in Philadelphia who uses the pronoun they, has been handing out water and snacks to protesters, as well as first-aid supplies to any medics who may need them. Meet the ‘Grandmother of Street Medics’ 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

"I am not an artist who became an activist," Belafonte said. Academy to honor Harry Belafonte for his activism 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

She’s often described as a writer, historian and activist, but you could equally think of her as a poet of the ineffable. Rebecca Solnit tries to answer 'The Mother of All Questions' 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

The positive power these women exert on their communities as mothers, grandmothers, teachers and activists inspired Ms. Chen to create a work that traverses different sound worlds with the use of humble instruments. Phyllis Chen Performs With Toy Pianos and Music Boxes 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

The program ties those activists’ work to modern movements for justice. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Hemingway’ and ‘The People v. the Klan’ 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Q: You’ve been an activist musician for more than 20 years. Kathleen Hanna on ‘Hit Reset,’ her recovery and her feminist path 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

And she is pointed when recalling how when the activist Daniel Cohn-Bendit was agitating in Paris, it wasn’t just the right wing that dismissed him with the categorization “a German Jew.” ‘Paris Calligrammes’ Review: Recalling the 1960s With Fondness and Passion 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

After Tiller – A look at late-term abortions in the US after the murder of doctor George Tiller by an anti-abortion activist. Sheffield Doc/Fest hopes to rekindle last year's Oscar magic 2013-05-09T10:00:03Z

So activists like O'Barry are trying to recruit more Japanese to their cause, publishing materials in the Japanese language and holding meetings with those who show an interest. Year after 'Cove' Oscar, activists shift tactics 2011-02-26T13:28:08Z

But you’re also an advocate and, on some days, maybe even an activist. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z

The exhibit drew protests by far-right activists when it was shown in the east German city of Dresden last February. Exhibit at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate evokes Syrian war 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Black writers, entertainers, and activists compared his views to those espoused by the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens’ Councils, and the Dixiecrats. “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Murphy called Ms. Young a “virulent anti-feminist” and an apologist for men’s rights activists. Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Together 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

At this meeting, held every two years, activists can discuss the perfidy of the industry, celebrate their successes and plan for the future. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

He could be dismissed as a polemicist, an activist. Ai Weiwei shows Venice Biennale his many sides 2013-05-30T11:57:01Z

From this humiliated/privileged vantage point he restlessly prowls his neighbourhood, becoming a passionate street activist. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

Afterward, Halle Berry led an extended tribute to actress, singer and civil rights activist Lena Horne. 2011 Academy Awards: Highlights from the show 2011-02-28T17:54:00Z

The time period is seen through the lens of both a play based on the work of an activist who scrawled slogans in public areas and through television from the time. Winter Movies 2021: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

While they saw it as an assault on their livelihoods, the city’s activists viewed it in a completely different light, chanting “Two down, one to go!” 16 Shots: behind a shocking film about an unlawful police shooting 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

He added that activists in the Gambian diaspora had become “all too accustomed” to Jammeh’s diversionary tactics. Activists call on Gambian president to pass FGM ban into law 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Star Trek actor and activist George Takei warned against discriminatory impulses in the wake of last night’s terror attacks in Paris, which took at least 127 lives. George Takei Releases Powerful Statement Against Racism After Paris Terror Attacks 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

That’s a testament to the enduring power of activist media, even in an era when it often seems impossible to attract attention to serious issues amid the rising tide of meaningless effluvia. The SeaWorld sea change: Will the marine park’s about-face signal a shift in how we think about animal captivity? 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mansour al-Omari, a Syrian human rights activist, recalls the moment his name was called by the jailer after spending nine months in detention. 'Please don't forget us': the hellish search for Syria's lost prisoners 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

When Trotter and other black activists wanted to buy tickets to see “The Birth of a Nation,” they were banned from doing so—it was openly stated that tickets would be sold to whites only. The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

It’s a job that’s exasperated pro-choice activists and been exploited by the far right. The ever-changing ideologies of Jane Roe 2013-01-03T16:29:00Z

In 2006, New York Theater Workshop effectively canceled a production of “My Name Is Rachel Corrie,” a play about an American activist killed in the Gaza Strip. In ‘Grey Rock,’ a Palestinian Playwright Tackles the Ordinary 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

The Franklin family said Williams Jr. was asked to speak at the funeral because he previously eulogized several members of the Franklin family, including Aretha Franklin’s father, minister and Civil Rights activist, C.L. Aretha Franklin’s family rebukes Reverend’s “distasteful” eulogy 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Maria del Rosario "Rosie" Castro, 72, a political activist in San Antonio, tried to set an example of political engagement for her twins. Rosie Castro: A proud mother sounds off on why her son Julián should be president 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

The inaugural pageant was in Atlantic City, home to Miss America, and in the same year that feminist activists took to the boardwalk to protest the older pageant as demeaning. ‘You can be unapologetically black’: How Miss Black America has endured 50 years 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ehrenreich, the journalist, activist and author, died at 81 on Thursday at a hospice facility in Alexandria, Va., where she also had a home. Barbara Ehrenreich, Explorer of Prosperity’s Dark Side, Dies at 81 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

And when activists, professors, and other intellectuals dissect how late capitalism is accelerating democracy's slide into fascism, these stories either directly or metaphorically illustrate what they're talking about. "The Boys" versus The Big Sellout 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Michaela’s journey resonated with me deeply as both an artist and an activist who understands adversity,” Madonna said. Madonna to direct movie based on life of ballerina Michaela DePrince 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Some activists believe that current estimates are conservative, as they don’t necessarily take into account those individuals born into slavery, or who were never registered at birth. If We Can’t Measure Slavery, Does It Exist? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

But it had a particularly luxurious point of view, a mass-market goal and activist undertones. They laughed when Diddy launched a fashion line. Then he changed the industry. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The show, in its West Hollywood iteration, will feature more than 50 performers — singers, artists, activists, academics and even real-deal witches —  from around the L.A. area and Canada. Column: Inside West Hollywood's feminist haunted house: Zombie folk singers and body-positive vampires 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

But it took activists, it took people questioning the so-called science in this case to get it overturned. Mo Rocca on "Mobituaries," celebrity deaths and what we get wrong about Billy Carter 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

In the 2006 documentary “Al Franken: God Spoke,” Mr. Franken, the comedian, activist and future senator from Minnesota, offered a quote that would prove prescient for more than its choice of verb: “Celebrity trumps ideology.” Franken and Trump, Hiding Behind Their ‘Jokes’ 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

The notion that activists can incorporate humor and hoaxing in the expression of dissent and the elaboration of progressive ideas is indebted to the Yes Men’s body of work. Humor and media hoaxes put social justice ideas on the map 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

Today, activists are lobbying in Albany to change all that. Condoms shouldn’t be a crime 2013-04-23T21:35:00Z

Vermont activists tried to match New York with a similar effort but ended up in court. A Widow and a Widower Embrace Love After Loss 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Supermodel and activist Emily Ratajkowski waved a sign that read “Dismantle power structures of oppression,” Paris Jackson carried one that said “Peace Love Justice” and rapper Machine Gun Kelly ’s said, “Silence is betrayal.” Celebs take to streets for historic demonstrations 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Poehler brought activists and speakers to set to set the tone and help on days when sensitive subjects were being discussed. Gen Z gets inspired by Gen X in Amy Poehler’s film ‘Moxie’ 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

I think a lot of activists have distanced themselves from that word. “If you want to see ‘angry feminist,’ I will show it to you”: “Captain Marvel” writer opens up about the backlash against the new Carol Danvers 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

“It’s a forgotten part of our history,” Marc Steiner, a Baltimore radio host and longtime activist who lived at Resurrection City during its six-week run, said in an interview. The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

But it’s important to remember that even in the halcyon days of the Clinton administration, abortion rights were under attack and artists and activists were moved to rally for pro-choice causes en masse. L7 frontwoman says feminist pop stars like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift should reboot Rock for Choice 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Piercy, representing the league, went on to attend the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1972, a key inflection point for female activists. The Women Who Met Hillary, and Spotted a Future Political Star 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

Renowned scholar and political activist Noam Chomsky sat down with Democracy Now and discussed political movements and United States’ relationship with its history of slavery. “Racism is a very serious problem in the United States”: Noam Chomsky discusses slavery in the U.S. 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Conservative activists successfully campaigned for corporate sponsors including Delta Airlines and Bank of America to withdraw financial support for the theatrical company, which oversees "Shakespeare in the Park" productions. Michael Moore Gives $10,000 to 'Julius Caesar' Producers 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Political activists use humour as terrorism to mortify your opponent. John Waters: ‘A new kind of anarchy is going to happen next’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

Time’s Up and other #MeToo activists lauded the move, but questioned why the accusers had to meet with the company at all. Ginsburg, in book, questions confidential #MeToo agreements 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

His mother owned and edited the local paper in Benton, Illinois, and his father became an environmental journalist and activist. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

All the while, he remained a social justice activist, documentarian and cultural historian and in his 80s was taking pictures of the Black Lives Matter movement. Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

More than once, the documentary “Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba!” quotes what the South African singer and activist would say when asked about political content in her music: “I don’t sing politics. I sing the truth.” Review: ‘Mama Africa’ Remembers the Life of Miriam Makeba 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Peterson, the activist who has lost multiple relatives, had an epiphany when she visited bereaved families in Kazakhstan, where the Soviet Union did its own testing. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

Jessica Luther, an Austin-based activist and PhD candidate in history at UT-Austin says that states south of the Mason-Dixon Line depended on slave economies at varying levels long before the Civil War began. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

Who, with any empathy at all, would pan Indigenous activists saying lines from “Antigone” into Rau’s sympathetic cameras? ‘Antigone in the Amazon’ Review: The Drama Is Brazil’s Land War 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

I went there to volunteer, eat pizza, and silently gawk at brilliant gay activists. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

For me, Northern Stage representing the voices of Teesside teenagers in Apples was as important a political act as the National staging the RP of politicians and activists in Earthquakes in London. Vernacular spectacular: why theatre speaks louder with regional accents 2010-10-06T14:08:00Z

He asked Mr. Boyd, an activist from the Lower East Side, to work with him on the project. A New York Clock That Told Time Now Tells the Time Remaining 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

The host, Mindy Fried, interviews caregivers, experts, activists and the families that turn to them to get help caring for the people they love. Podcasts About Impeachment, Mr. Rogers and a Purring Cat: What’s New 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Last month animal rights activists accused studios of responsibility for the deaths of more than 20 animals, including horses, pigs and chickens, during the making of the film. The Hobbit premiere: New Zealand girds itself for An Unexpected Journey 2012-11-28T10:33:44Z

One of the women activists was April Wolford, now in information technology services at the University of California, Berkeley. Thank You for Asking 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

In 2014 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with an Indian activist. 'I've never been so happy': Nobel winner Malala in Pakistan 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Many people know him as an environmentalist, hemp activist and all-around goofball. Woody Harrelson's anti-vax joke raises questions about what we excuse in likable people in our lives 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

The past months have reactivated activists of previous eras and brought in many new ones. A Jazz Funeral for the American Presidency 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Many female celebrities brought feminist activists as their dates to the Baftas, using their platform to amplify the voice of others. Time’s Up Descends on Baftas as ‘Three Billboards’ Wins 5 Awards 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

“The Trial of the Chicago 7,” the drama centered on anti-Vietnam War activists charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, earned Aaron Sorkin a best screenplay trophy. At the Golden Globes, faulty connections and some mixed messages about diversity 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

This menagerie has inspired furious protests, including activists outside this show holding photos of tigers that read: “Whipped for your entertainment.” The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Finally, in “They Were Eleven,” published in 1930, Helena Huntington Smith profiles the birth-control activist Margaret Sanger, who was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood. Sunday Reading: The Challenge to Reproductive Rights in America 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

“The cancellation of this screening is not a victory. Victory will be when the impunity for rapists ends,” Chloe Madesta, one of the activists, told France Info Radio. Polanski film premiere disrupted by rape accusations protest 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z