Social media has provided a dynamic avenue for activists to spread their messages and reach a wider audience on the global stage. Large social movements, like the Black Lives Matter Movement, have ...

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A well-established youth collective in the Global South is planning its next action, and its members are in conversation with a nongovernmental organization (NGO, or, in the United States, nonprofit) ...

A new article analyzes Chile's transition in 1990 from dictatorship to democracy, the nature of democracy between 1990 and 2019, and the appearance of several social movements geared to expanding this ...

Pope Francis compared popular movements to the Good Samaritan, and said that these two things reminded him of the protests which happened because of the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man ...

In June 2015, a white supremacist opened fire inside the historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine black congregants, including the minister. The massacre ...

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Living in a country that is fueled by large corporations, we, as American citizens, are subjected to many odd forms of advertisement. We are continuously fed pieces of media that fit new trends in ...

Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...

Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...