activist

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If you are an activist, journalist or citizen living in a country with internet restrictions, VPNs provide access to blocked websites and private communication channels.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

The opera was composed by Still with a libretto from the Missouri-born poet, playwright, novelist and social activist Langston Hughes, who connected Haiti’s struggle for freedom to his home country’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Trailing behind him is Steyer - a progressive billionaire climate activist who has poured millions from his own fortune into the race - with 1.3m votes.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Anna Arno, who has written biographies of the German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and the Polish activist Konstanty Jeleński, meets that challenge in “Paul Celan: A Life.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

He had begun his activist career as a follower of Du Bois, fighting to integrate interstate buses, and had ended up toiling in the fields of black enterprise, Booker T. Washington’s domain.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson