We live in an era where a single hashtag can spark a global revolution. The way people organize, protest, and demand change ...

Gordon, a noted historian of the United States, seeks to understand how social movements arise and operate, in the belief that these movements have changed the world as significantly as have wars or ...

The U.S. and many other societies are cycling into situations of toxic polarization today; discussion, let alone consensus, often appears impossible and the advantage goes to exclusionary social ...

On a special episode (first released on February 5, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: From conservative social movements such as those tied to prohibition, the Moral Majority evangelicals, and the Tea ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that organized civil society and social ...

Holding political office is not the same as wielding political power—especially for the left. To win bold demands, social movements must go on the offensive. Holding political office is not the same ...

Solidarity is an idea that is often invoked in progressive political and labor organizing contexts. But where does this idea come from? What does it mean, practically speaking, to be “in solidarity” ...

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BKC Faculty Associate Stefania Milan and David Beraldo put the studies of data and social movements in conversation with each other. "Because people’s ‘information diet’ is at the core of public ...

Since the death of Mahsa Jini Amini in 2022, Iranian women have led a women’s rights movement to advocate for gender equality and the expansion of women’s rights in Iranian society, which has gained ...

In late 2020, months after the murder of George Floyd, I read about the $340 billion in corporate pledge money allocated toward addressing racial injustice and spearheading Diversity, Equity and ...

In November 2022, Mackenzie Scott announced she had given almost $2 billion to 343 organizations, many of which are funds, as she calls them. In 2021, The Libra Foundation, a family foundation based ...