Imagine a world where the social sector exercises the full measure of its power and influence, fueled by its more than 12 million employees and 64 million volunteers. Imagine people who are fighting ...

Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Gal Beckerman talked about forms of communications activists use to exchange ideas to affect change. New York Times Book Review editor and ...

Fashion and culture are more than trends. Learn how political fashion and social justice style amplify social movements and statements.

It has never been clearer that ideas germinated by social movements exert great force in law and politics in the United States. Examples from the left abound over the last decade. Occupy Wall Street ...

Thomas Jefferson’s proclamation of “self-evident truths” in the Declaration of Independence was a turning point in world ...

On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: The Black Lives Matter movement: Has its moment passed? In the summer of 2020, a wave of social unrest in America exploded following the murder of George ...

The Tea Party rang in the decade, and President Trump's rallies continue with gusto. In between, America rediscovered its capacity for protest and social action on a grand scale. Why have social ...

The past several years have seen dramatic growth in social movements demonstrating their dissent through public mass mobilization and acts of civil disobedience, from Black Lives Matter and Fridays ...

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 ...