The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the civil rights movement. Founded in 1942, its stated mission is “to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion…
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, elicited a range of responses from Americans123456. Black Americans were devastated, pained, and angered by his death. Violence erupted in more than 125 American cities across 29 states, and nearly 50,000 federal troops occupied America’s…
During the first half of the 20th century, Jews were discriminated against and barred from working in some fields of employment, barred from renting and/or owning certain properties, not accepted as members by social clubs, barred from resort areas and barred from enrolling in colleges…
Days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin made it a crime to oppose the war in public. Since then, it has waged a relentless campaign of repression, putting Russian citizens in jail for offenses as small as holding a poster or sharing a news article…
The Port Huron Statement was a broad critique of the political and social system of the United States for failing to achieve international peace and economic justice. In foreign policy, the statement took issue with the American government’s handling of the Cold War, both the existential…
On April 5, 1992, several hundred thousand people, mostly women, marched to the Mall in Washington, D.C., in support of abortion rights. At the time, the rally was one of the largest protest marches ever staged in the nation’s capital. Most of the marchers wore…
Ester Goffi, a 25-year-old art history student, and Guido Viero, a 61-year-old health worker, glued their hands to the famous statue Laocoön and His Sons [in August 2022] in a sign of protest urging world leaders to combat climate change, while an unnamed friend was filming…
Peatónito — “little pedestrian” in Spanish — started as a joke, he says; after he and friends attended a lucha libre match, they put on masks and hit the streets to shame drivers. His colorful character resonated immediately with people on both sides of the steering wheel,…
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