There are so many incredible Asian American environmental justice activists fighting for a more equitable and sustainable planet. And as May marks Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, there’s no better time to celebrate them.For...
The film combines music, startling 16mm footage (lying undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for 30 years), and contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars. Released: 2011 Directed by: Göran Olsson The Wrestler falling on... #...
Much less is known about the individuals who engage in community activism for social justice, how they became activists, and the challenges they face in the current political-economic context of rising neoconservativism and neoliberalism that is racialized and gendered. The following discussion ...
After briefly serving as minister of Labor Temple in New York City, he became national secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, from which he published the book Nonviolence in an Aggressive World (1940) and trained a generation of activists in nonviolent direct action against racial ...
see students in these public institutions of learning as potential activists against the status quo (as they were during the Vietnam War era). The governing boards usually vet the candidates for this office and thus want the candidate to mirror their own views of “national interests.” Those ...
With the Executive Branch back in the red hands of the Democrats, the scales of justice are once again about to be manipulated by the weighty thumbs of left wing jurists and lawyerly activists salivating for conservative blood. Merrick Garland, the new Attorney General, is about as even-hand...
Still, reformers believed that the abolition of “strong drink” would bring about social progress, obviate the need for prisons and insane asylums, save women and children from domestic abuse, and usher in a more just, progressive society. Powerful female activists emerged out of the club ...
Story: A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris. Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious ... Plot: politics, coming of age, radical, family life, political unrest, family problems, immigrant...
KW: The Christian Right is a coalition of religious-political activists for whom religion and politics are inextricably linked. The argument advanced by the Christian Right is that you truly cannot be a Christian without espousing the political positions of the Right. In many cases, the key spoke...
Avedon’s work goes beyond the realm of fashion, as he also produced poignant portraits of civil rights activists, politicians, and ordinary individuals, revealing the complexity of human identity. Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange(1895–1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojou...