activism

Climate activists from the group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) hold up commuter traffic on a Monday morning in Berlin by supergluing themselves to the road. Police unstick their hands using cooking oil and a pastry brush while irate drivers look on, stuck for more than an hour.

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Climate activists are fuming as Germany turns to coal to replace Russian gas

5:00am December 26, 2022

by Esme Nicholson

Germany is firing up coal plants and importing liquefied natural gas to shore up energy supplies. Activists are carrying out increasingly disruptive protests, gluing themselves to roads and runways.

Urvashi Vaid, then-executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, protests at then-President George H.W. Bush's address on AIDS in March 1990 in Arlington, Virginia. The pioneering LGBTQ activist and attorney died last week at age 63.

Remembering Urvashi Vaid, an LGBTQ activist who spent decades fighting for equality

12:07pm May 18, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Colleagues, friends and admirers are paying tribute to Vaid, the pioneering attorney and organizer who died at age 63 on Friday. She worked for the ACLU and National LGBTQ Task Force, among others.

From left: Giovanna Basso, Mofiyin Onanuga, Emma Fetzer and Joanne Lee are teen leaders for the U.N.-sponsored gender equality group Girl Up. They attended Girl Up's virtual conference last week, which featured Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai as

Teen Girl Leaders In A Pandemic: Fight For What's Right, Then Groove To BTS

7:00am July 24, 2021

by Jacky Habib

Four attendees of the Girl Up Leadership Summit share how they balance their passion for social justice issues with self-care: tuning out the news, going for a walk and binging Harry Potter.

People attend a rally denouncing antisemitic violence on May 27 in Cedarhurst, New York. Following a surge in antisemitic hate crimes triggered by last month's Israel-Gaza conflict, some Jews are wondering why the condemnation hasn't been stronger.

Antisemitism Spikes, And Many Jews Wonder: Where Are Our Allies?

5:09pm June 07, 2021

After turning out for racial justice and other movements in the U.S., they are frustrated by the response to attacks and hatred directed at Jews following the latest Mideast violence.

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Race
Youth

A Fight That Goes Back 60 Years

8:30am December 12, 2020

by Raine Myers

During the summer of 2020, as part of Virtual Radio Camp, Raine Myers interviewed Barbara Morris about her experience participating in the Civil Rights movement.

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Education

The Winners Of The NPR Student Podcast Challenge

7:00am June 03, 2020

With entries from 46 states and Washington, D.C., two winners emerge from more than 2,200 podcasts to win this year's NPR Student Podcast Challenge.

A protester holds a poster reading "Free Yegor Zhukov!" during an August rally in Moscow, after mass police detentions. He was arrested in Moscow on Aug. 1.

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The Russian Student Who Has Become Moscow's New Face Of Dissent

12:56pm September 19, 2019

by Lucian Kim

In his last YouTube video, 21-year-old student Yegor Zhukov said, "Russia will eventually be free. But we may not live to see it if we let fear win." He was arrested in Moscow on Aug. 1.

Activists from Girl Up. Top row from left: Valeria Colunga, Eugenie Park, Angelica Almonte, Emily Lin. Bottom row from left: Lauren Woodhouse, Winter Ashley, Zulia Martinez, Paola Moreno-Roman.

Teen Girl Activists Take On Skeptical Boys, Annoying Buzzwords

9:41pm July 17, 2019

We spoke to teen activists at the Girl Up event in Washington, D.C., this week. They had a lot to say about everything from buzzwords that make them mad to the best ways to de-stress.

Saudi activist and campaigner Aziza al-Yousef, pictured in 2016, is on trial this week in the capital Riyadh. She has been detained since last May.

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Opinion: Saudi Women's Rights Activists Awarded For Their Work — While On Trial

11:41am March 16, 2019

by Melissa Block

Three women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia received a prestigious award this week. But they can't receive it because they are on trial for their activism.

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Friends of Loujain al-Hathloul made a photo to parody a Vogue Arabia cover image showing a Saudi princess in a red convertible. Pictured here (left to right) are Ayendri Ishani Ridell, Urooba Jamal, Narissa Diwan, Atiya Jaffar and Rauza Khan. Hathloul "to

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Concern Grows For Loujain Al-Hathloul, Jailed Saudi Women's Driving Activist

4:54pm February 15, 2019

by Jackie Northam

Loujain al-Hathloul, who opposed the kingdom's past ban on women driving, is among several Saudi female activists who have been imprisoned since last year. Relatives say the women have been tortured.