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This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focus on those African Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African Americans.
A Black Lives Matter die-in over rail tracks, protesting alleged police brutality in Saint Paul, Minnesota (September 20, 2015). Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement [1] [2] that aims to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people and to promote anti-racism.
This category lists African-American people who were/are activists for various issues (including but not limited to civil rights). For African-Americans' civil rights activists (regardless of ethnicity), see: Category:Activists for African-American civil rights
Black separatism, a separatist political movement that seeks separate economic and cultural development for those of African descent in societies Political hip hop § Ideology and views of political rappers , a subgenre of hip hop music that was developed in the 1980s as a way of turning hip hop into a form of political activism
W.E.B. Du Bois was a sociologist and activist who became the first Black person to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. What did W.E.B. Du Bois accomplish?
LGBT rights activist, gay rights pioneer, founder of Humsafar Trust: Benjamin Chavis: 1948 United States: activist, chemist, minister, author, leader of Wilmington Ten, led Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, campaigned against environmental racism, executive director of NAACP, national director of Million Man March
Only 2 percent of teachers in the U.S. are Black men. Educator Mario Jovan Shaw shares how his organization, Profound Gentlemen, is working to empower more men of color in education.
Just as black power activists focused on community control of schools and politics, the movement took a major interest in creating and controlling its own media institutions. Most famously, the Black Panther Party produced the Black Panther newspaper, which proved to be one of the BPP's most influential tools for disseminating its message and ...