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The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power Caty Borum 280 pages, NYU Press, 2023 Buy the book » The participatory culture of the streaming, social-media age has changed nearly every norm of how effective human rights activism works. At the same time, the entertainment industry finds itself in the midst […]
When I was 6 years old, I was sitting in the living room with my parents in Ponca City, and it was the first time I noticed a KL tattoo in blue ink on each of my parents’ wrists. I was to learn that the letters stood for Concentration Camp. On the inside of my […]
Somalia is seeing the highest number of people fleeing their homes in a decade, as entire communities try to escape a deadly combination of conflict, extreme weather events and poverty, Islamic Relief says. Already vast and overcrowded displacement camps are growing rapidly as people try to find food and other aid. The country is heavily […]
Tadashi Miyamoto/AFLO/Shutterstock Olga Kharlan looks on during her first round match against Anna Smirnova at the world championships. CNN — The leader of Ukraine’s national fencing team,
The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control,” as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record. From a report: “If we persist in delaying key measures that are needed, I think we are moving into […]
Color of Change’s president, Rashad Robinson, at the 2022 FairVote Awards. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for FairVote) Color of Change recently announced significant cuts to its budget and staff. Dozens of interviews and a review of internal documents show a pattern of lavish spending. The Color of Change Education Fund’s board chair called last […]
“International Black Heritage Month” announces its inaugural Change Maker List 2023 in the final lineup of events for June, featuring creative pioneers that include multi-hyphenate Grace Jones, music mogul Clive Davis, environmentalist Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti, actress and producer Jada Pinkett Smith, actor David Oyelowo, and environmentalist Jaden Smith more… June is International Black Heritage Month […]
WASHINGTON — Days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, then-Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi tapped Rep. Mike Thompson, a Vietnam veteran and lifelong hunter, to lead a new group to find ways to work with Republicans to stop gun violence. More than a decade later, Thompson is still chairman of the Gun Violence […]
Can you provide some examples from the book of successful systems of cooperation? There are so many that have been around for so long! As far back as 1895, representatives of cooperatives from around the world—Argentina, Australia, India, Serbia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States, among other countries—came together at the First […]
By Jeremy Harlan, CNN Aspen, Colorado (CNN) — As hotel staff lowered the shades, signaling the beginning of the “Black on Black” dinner, guests seated in Aspen’s historic Hotel Jerome seemed to take a collective breath — preparing for a joyful and emotional four-hour celebration of the wine industry’s most influential Black leaders. The dinner, […]