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From the Women’s War of 1929 to the Anlu uprising three decades later, African women were organizing and resisting long before donors arrived to ‘give them a voice.’

The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns. Occasional actions that simply protest a particular policy or egregious action aren’t enough.

This is how authoritarians operate: they flourish when the population feels despair, turning even moments that could bring us together into tools for separation.

Tech and disability, the French Murdoch, and more media flashes

In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.

The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice rather than passive assurance that it would prevail.

The question of where Chile’s true identity lies becomes ever more pressing as the fiftieth anniversary of Pinochet’s coup approaches.

The discipline emerged from Black struggle. Now the College Board wants it to be taught with barely any mention of Black Lives Matter.

The massive protests in Iran, fueled by the audacity of young women and children, are rooted in over a century of struggle.