- 1. Leslie Jones Set the Bar Incredibly High for Future Guest Hosts During her Run on "The Daily Show
- (TV)
- ... stated what we all have been thinking, “who is guarding these documents?” As her Daily Show debut took place one day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jones also blessed us with a street interview in ...
- Created on 20 January 2023
- 2. Get To The Other Side Of Loss With These 10 Biographies On Grief and The Human Experience
- (Books)
- ... who find comfort in the realization that pain often leads to wholly unexpected uplift and growth, this book will be a welcome salve. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 3. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... Rosa Parks in history class or watching a Martin Luther King Jr. Special on PBS—but by choosing to support Black women especially, and more fiercely than before. Though these movies and shows can and should ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 4. Exclusive Interview with Pioneering Educator Jane Elliott: Teaching and Understanding Race In 2020
- (Feminism)
- ... for the day ahead, the news tragically turned to the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., rocking the nation and transforming Elliott’s classroom—and many others for years ...
- Created on 16 October 2020
- 5. Twitter Phenom Jaboukie Young-White Talks DMs, Comedy, and Millennials: BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... Mars, and Dr. Martin Luther “Short” King Jr. “Short kings are the enemy of body negativity,” the 25-year-old once tweeted, “and I’ll be forever proud to defend them.” A child of Jamaican immigrants and ...
- Created on 21 July 2020
- 6. 5 Things We Wished We Missed This Weekend—But You Probably Shouldn'
- (Entertainment)
- ... rights icon John Lewis. Lewis, a colleague of Martin Luther King’s, was at every legendary event in history fighting for civil rights: he aided in the lunch counter sit-ins, marched in Selma, helped the ...
- Created on 20 July 2020
- 7. Nick Cannon’s Comments Indicate A Bigger (And Much More Nuanced) Problem
- (Feminism)
- ... wrote, “The lesson never changes, so why is it so hard for some people to learn: No one is free until everyone is free. As Martin Luther King Jr. explained: ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ...
- Created on 17 July 2020
- 8. Ditch Your White Savior Complex: 10 More Documentaries To Watch About Racism Instead Of “The Help”
- (Movies)
- ... Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Baldwin also discusses Baldwin’s observations on American history. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. This film highlights the incredible ...
- Created on 10 June 2020
- 9. 10 Documentaries and Movies About Police Brutality and Racism White People Must Watch
- (Movies)
- ... in America: 1. Selma (YouTube) Just to see how little has truly changed, you should first watch the film Selma about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Selma to Montgomery to try to get President ...
- Created on 03 June 2020
- 10. Longtime Activist Jean Stallings On Her Experiences Fighting For Women — And Advice For Younger Generations
- (Feminism)
- ... rights for single mothers, and her experience meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. How did you start your journey inspiring others, such as myself, to become feminists and activists? I started with ...
- Created on 06 February 2020
- 11. 20 Moments from the 2020 Women's March You Might Have Missed If Your Feminism Isn't Intersection
- (Feminism)
- ... The world stands with ILHAN???? #istandwithilhan #thequeen A post shared by CANADIAN FANs????????✊? (@weloveilhanomar) on Oct 6, 2019 at 2:43pm PDT Martin Luther ...
- Created on 21 January 2020
- 12. Political Protest Ban at 2020 Olympics Will Not Silence Megan Rapinoe
- (Feminism)
- ... issues happening at the time. It was mere months after the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at the height of the Vietnam War protests and just days after the massacre of 3,000 student protesters ...
- Created on 13 January 2020
- 13. More Power of Popular Fiction For Thomas Cromwell And Wolf Hall
- (Living)
- ... a devout Catholic in a position of power. He wrote polemics denouncing the Protestant reformers and, at the request of Henry VIII, he wrote the Responsio ad Lutherum, accusing Martin Luther of heresy. ...
- Created on 17 July 2019
- 14. Dulcé Sloan Of "The Daily Show" Is Equal Parts Funny And Swee
- (TV)
- ... Martin Luther King’s last name is ‘Boulevard.’”) This kind of informed thoughtfulness is a key element to Sloan’s humor. As far as she’s concerned, comedians who strive just to be offensive are wasting ...
- Created on 01 April 2019
- 15. Corita Kent Was A Pop-Art Pioneer—And A Catholic Nun
- (Arts)
- ... the widow of Mexican muralist Alfredo Ramos Martínez. Romero had learned screen printing so that she could reproduce her late husband’s work. Under her tutelage, Kent picked up the basics of the form, ...
- Created on 11 March 2019
- 16. Kamala Harris Announces She Is Running For President in 2020
- (Feminism)
- California Senator Kamala Harris announced this morning on Good Morning America that she is officially running for president. Harris, who said she was honored to be making the announcement on Martin ...
- Created on 21 January 2019
- 17. 15-Year-Old Claudette Colvin Refused To Give Up Her Bus Seat, Nine Months Before Rosa Parks
- (Feminism)
- ... Claudette watched Jeremiah’s arrest from her classroom window. She saw his countless fruitless legal appeals. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and the whole NAACP fought for his freedom, which never ...
- Created on 03 December 2018
- 18. Aretha Franklin's Activist Legac
- (Music)
- ... “Think.” Franklin's personal activism extended beyond her music as well. She was a financial supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s efforts, as well as the families of incarcerated people and black ...
- Created on 16 August 2018
- 19. This Art Exhibit Celebrates Female Eroticism And Same-Sex Intimacy
- (Arts)
- ... Las Vegas, the Erotic Heritage Museum showcases progressive, sex-positive activism. On Martin Luther King, Jr. day, an enormous poster featuring the words of the First Amendment was displayed across the ...
- Created on 30 May 2018
- 20. Soon You'll Be Able To Binge-Watch The Obamas On Netflix: Link Roundu
- (TV)
- ... to date, pro-Trump blogger Lucian Wintrich told Martin Luther King, Jr.’s youngest daughter, Bernice King, “Hmmm… I don’t think you actually listened to your father.” He proceeded to tweet parts of MLK’s ...
- Created on 22 May 2018
