Tag: activism

Are we having a surface-level reckoning?

Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.

Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy is the embodiment of concept that the personal is political, even (especially?) in her fiction.

Three stories on youth activism in conservative towns shed an interesting light on the national gun debate.

A reminder, courtesy of Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova.

It’s time to take another look at the definition of activism and where journalism fits in.

After years of trying to distinguish herself, Sara Eckel considers the value of door-to-door canvassing, phone-banking, and other anonymous tasks of everyday activism.

Food activist Shakirah Simley lays out her philosophy for a ‘good food movement’ that prioritizes racial equality.

Anti-whaling activists target an Arctic subsistence hunter after a whale hunt gets media coverage.

After converting to Islam in the ’90s, the point guard began to pray during the national anthem. He was soon traded.

Activist DeRay Mckesson says that to make this world a better place, people need to pick one thing to work on and keep at it.

While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.

In Boyle Heights, activists are fighting art galleries that represent the first wave of gentrification.

Knitting and sewing circles have long been the perfect environments for women to organize.

The difference between hope and optimism, and the dangers of activism without a plan.

Elaine Brown was the first and only woman to lead the male-dominated Black Panther Party. She looks back on Jean Seberg, COINTELPRO, and internal divisions within the organization.

“I never did like the world-famous Mardi Gras that went on in New Orleans. It was a beautiful sight, but to me it was horrible. I have seen so many people hurt on that particular day . . . The white people would celebrate their Mardi Gras with big and expensive floats that went down the main part of Canal Street, which were very beautiful and high class . . . But for my people, for them it would be such a tragedy. “

The author and environmental activist Edward Abbey, who passed away in 1989, would have been 88 today. Abbey—who Larry McMurtry dubbed “the Thoreau of the American West”—was known for his searing love of wilderness, particularly the deserts of the Southwest, and his progressive views. An excerpt from Desert Solitaire, his most famous non-fiction work, can be […]

“If you survive me, tell them this: I never gave up.”