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This month, in an effort to curb the threat of activist groups, a guard now patrols the premises 24 hours a day, entrance is restricted to key card access on Saturdays, and research assistants are urging lab workers to back up records and store data in new locations...
Soyinka, who is a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, has also been a prominent political activist since he was imprisoned in 1967 after appealing in an article for a ceasefire in the Nigerian civil...
...brutality of Jim Crow. The fact that these tactics generate more discussion than the issues that prompt them demonstrates their effectiveness. In the real word, most people don’t talk about issues—at least not with the prospect of immediate action—unless some activist has forced them to. I have spent far more time talking about vomit over the last two weeks than I’ve spent discussing torture. But, to be honest, I wasn’t really talking about torture before the protest, and neither were my friends. Any discussion...
...audience also applauded AIDS activist Sibulele Sibaca when she spoke in a panel on the orphan crisis in Africa about having lost both of her parents to AIDS...
Perry, an outspoken AIDS activist who is HIV-positive and openly gay and who was recently featured on Oprah Winfrey’s television show, captivated the audience with his frank recounting of his experience. He described being angry and depressed upon discovering that his partner had passed the virus to him—while aware of his own HIV-positive status...