Being too reliant on one charismatic leader is why contemporary social movements often prefer to be leaderless or to ...

We live in an era where a single hashtag can spark a global revolution. The way people organize, protest, and demand change has transformed dramatically since the year 2000. What makes a movement ...

It has never been clearer that ideas germinated by social movements exert great force in law and politics in the United States. Examples from the left abound over the last decade. Occupy Wall Street ...

On a special episode (first released on February 5, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: From conservative social movements such as those tied to prohibition, the Moral Majority evangelicals, and the Tea ...

Gordon, a noted historian of the United States, seeks to understand how social movements arise and operate, in the belief that these movements have changed the world as significantly as have wars or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. Activist Tarana Burke, the original creator of the "Me Too" ...

The past several years have seen dramatic growth in social movements demonstrating their dissent through public mass mobilization and acts of civil disobedience, from Black Lives Matter and Fridays ...

Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...

Solidarity is an idea that is often invoked in progressive political and labor organizing contexts. But where does this idea come from? What does it mean, practically speaking, to be “in solidarity” ...

BKC Faculty Associate Stefania Milan and David Beraldo put the studies of data and social movements in conversation with each other. "Because people’s ‘information diet’ is at the core of public ...

COSATU members during the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) National Day of Action at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Johannesburg, South Africa on Oct. 07, 2021. Pro-Palestine activists have ...