American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. (1927-1989).

An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. ...

Laura Antoniou (born 1963) is an American novelist. She is the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson.

Founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. (1905-1986).

Folk singer, songwriter and activist. (Born 1941).

African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).

Rosalyn Baxandall, a feminist historian who was among the first to bring scholarly attention to the historical role of women in the workplace and to expand the meaning of "women's work," has died.

(Born 1925). American philosopher and former Major League Baseball player and manager.

American poet, peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. (Born 1921).

Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.

Grace Lee Boggs, founding member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency (where her party name was Ria Stone), has died at the age of 100 in Detroit. She was born on June 27, 1915 and passed away October 5, 20...

Remembering the brief life of Aaron Swartz: programmer, activist, entrepreneur, community builder.

Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia.

American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).

Wrestler.

American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. (1925-1966).

Trinidadian-American black leader active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. (1941-1998).

American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings, especially 'Silent Spring', are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (1907-1964).

Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (19...

American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. (Born 1928).

Barry Commoner, biologist, environmental, socialist, humanist, and one of the central leaders of the anti-nuclear-testing movement, dies at 95. He is particularly remembered for the “Four Laws of Ecol...

Deborah Cunningham was an ADAPT activist and Executive Director of the Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL). When she died on May 7, the movement lost a tireless, creative, committed activist,...

American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).

American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).

The founder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.

About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.

American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).

American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. (1818-1895).

American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).

African American civil rights activist from Mississippi, murdered in 1963. (1925-1963).

American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).

American poet best known for the poem "Howl", in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the Unit...

Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).

American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).

American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. (1941-2002).

American singer-songwriter and folk musician. (1912-1967).

Alger Hiss (1904 - 1996) was an American lawyer, civil servant, businessman, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and UN off...

American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School. (1905-1990).

'A strange fate befell Muhammad Ali in the 1990s', Mike Marqusee writes in Redemption Song, his wonderful, illuminating study of 'Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties'. ‘The man who had defied t...

Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).

Russell Jacoby (born April 23, 1945) is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an author and a critic of academic culture. His fields of interest are twentieth-cen...

The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an e...

American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).

(1929-1968). Was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.

American biologist and sexologist. (1894-1956).

American radical lawyer and civil rights activist. (1919-1995).

President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 - May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in...

A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons...

American sociologist. (1916-1962).

Boxer.

American historian and philosopher of technology and science. (1895-1990).

American attorney, author, lecturer, and political activist. (Born 1934).

Interview with Noam Chomsky.

U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, an...

Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his role a...

Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).

Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 - May 11, 1936) was Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He was nicknamed The Fighting Quaker and he directed the controversial Palmer Raids.

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.

African American civil rights activist. (1913-2005).

Boxer.

Mexican artist. (1886-1957).

Musician, actor, speaker, lawyer, radical. (1898-1976).

Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 - June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 - June 19, 1953) were American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionag...

Charles Emil "C.E." Ruthenberg (1882 - 1927) was an American marxist politician and was a founder and head of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

Labourers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed in Massachusetts in 1927.

American filmmaker.

Assata Olugbala Shakur (born July 16, 1947 as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Bl...

William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich a history of Nazi Germany...

American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. He is considered one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. (Born 1945).

Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.

Gould, the world’s leading expert on the evolution of Bahamian land snails, and one of the most influential evolutionary theorists of his generation, shared Engels’ enthusiasm for understanding the na...

Website devoted to the journalism and life of radical journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989).

American investigative journalist. (1907-1989).

Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 - February 27, 2004) was a Marxist economist and a founding editor of the magazine Monthly Review.

Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).

American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. (1912-2008).

American author and poet. (1817-1862).

Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1950).

William Worthy, Jr. (b. 1921) is an African-American journalist, civil rights activist, and dissident who pressed his right to travel regardless of U.S. State Department regulations.

African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. (1925-1965).

American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).