activism

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In many industries, activism can create value by cutting waste, improving governance or forcing management to focus on underperforming assets.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

The Black struggle for voting rights perhaps best exemplifies how Black activism was critical to the formation of the Reconstruction Amendments.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

"What's key about Winifred is that her experience with prejudice, both racial and gendered, is that she factored it into her own activism," says Springer.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Max Moran, a 23-year-old across the Ohio state line in Germantown, Kentucky, who shares activism tips with Sharp and Baker in their Facebook messaging group, said he hasn’t used chatbots much for his research.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

By 1959, the era of student activism had begun in Durham, under the leadership of Floyd McKissick, Douglas Moore, and Louis Austin, and backed by the black churches—particularly the black church women.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson