Atlanta Jail Will Be Transformed into a Center for Equity
06/26/2020 - 16:40
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Non-profit design organization is turning a jail into a community space.
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Non-profit design organization is turning a jail into a community space.
Protestors didn’t ask for performative change, but they’re getting a lot of it
06/26/2020 - 11:46
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Meanwhile, police are still killing people of color nationwide.
Malala Yousafzai graduates from Oxford
06/22/2020 - 11:52
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The achievement comes eight years after she was attacked for standing up for women’s education in Pakistan.
“Orange is the New Black” cast tackles antiracism
06/19/2020 - 12:49
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Eleven actresses from the show took part in an hour-long livestream featuring some of the leading voices on antiracism in the U.S.
Yoga means “union”: Yoga teachers join the BLM movement worldwide
06/17/2020 - 16:27
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Yogis across the U.S. and world have found their own unique ways to support Black lives.
An anti-racist anthology: Five books to educate yourself about racism
06/17/2020 - 11:08
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It is our job to educate ourselves and do the work.
How to avoid performative activism
06/16/2020 - 11:54
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Move beyond posting a black square to support a cause.
Black women activists team up with White women celebrities for #ShareTheMicNow campaign
06/15/2020 - 11:36
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The effort reached up to 300 million people over the weekend.
La lucha de TikTok por una plataforma más equitativa
06/09/2020 - 17:22
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La popular aplicación de video corto ha sido objeto de críticas por publicaciones racistas últimamente, pero también ha sido una plataforma clave para los mensajes de justicia social.
TikTok’s fight for a more equitable platform
06/09/2020 - 17:10
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The popular short-video app has seen criticism for racist posts of late, but also been a key platform for social justice messaging.
Eight Latinas among the one hundred most influential women in the world in 2019
10/18/2019 - 08:31
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and actress Yalitza Aparicio are among the BBC's 100 Most Influential Women.
The Young Lords of New York turn 50
07/26/2019 - 19:23
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With all that’s happened in Puerto Rico over the last two weeks, it’s only fitting that some of its biggest revolutionaries in the U.S. hit an important milestone.
How journalists can fight back against the opioid crisis
06/14/2019 - 11:52
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One newspaper in Arizona has made it its mission to stop the drug crisis in its community
Worldwide rallies mark day for elimination of violence against women
11/26/2018 - 11:39
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The rallies were held in many countries, marking the beginning of 16 days of activism.
From the Brown Berets to the #NeverAgain Movement
03/09/2018 - 16:07
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The student force that can change the destiny of an entire country.
De las Boinas Cafés al #NeverAgain
03/09/2018 - 15:50
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La fuerza estudiantil que puede cambiar el destino entero de un país.
“Dear Sisters, time’s up”
01/02/2018 - 12:51
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A group of more than 300 women has decided to open 2018 with an initiative to break the silent tradition of sexual harassment and bring the #MeToo revolution beyond Hollywood.
“Queridas hermanas, se acabó el tiempo”
01/02/2018 - 12:14
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Un grupo de más de 300 mujeres ha decidido abrir el 2018 con una iniciativa para romper con la tradición silente del acoso sexual, y llevar la revolución del #MeToo más allá de Hollywood.
The voice of freedom dies in China
07/13/2017 - 17:08
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Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, suffered from an aggressive cancer at age 61 while in prison.
Buscando santuario en lugares de devoción
05/23/2017 - 15:00
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Inmigrantes indocumentados a nivel nacional están buscando refugio en instituciones religiosas.
Ulises Bella: "We've always combated all that crap that Donald Trump talks about"
05/05/2017 - 04:08
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The new album of Ozomatli, which is titled "Non-Stop: Mexico to Jamaica" and will be released today, is aimed at showing solidarity with the Latino community.
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera took to the streets of Philadelphia
05/05/2017 - 02:44
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"Artivist" Tania Bruguera took part in the exhibition Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, organized by The Barnes Foundation.
Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms receives ALBA Human Rights Award
04/17/2017 - 03:01
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Proactiva Open Arms, a Spanish NGO which has helped and rescued some 37,000 migrants in the Aegean and central Mediterranean Sea, on Sunday received the 2017 ALBA / Puffin Award for human rights activism in New York.
Philly Grows Into Its Anarchist Shoe
03/29/2017 - 09:18
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Past a chalkboard that says, “Come inside to read a good book,” on one side and “Don’t be an asshole!” on the other, you come across a tattered SEPTA Union Strike poster from the early twentieth century, preserved underneath an equally withered-away lamination. A few cautious inches deep inside of this surreal time machine, a pillar manages to stand from the 1890s home of an anarchist feminist writer and speaker who lived near Drexel University.
"Zully, Enrique, Alex, listen, we're fighting"
03/28/2017 - 02:53
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Some 200 people took to the streets of Boston Monday calling for the release of three undocumented migrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.