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Craig Cobb
Craig Cobb (born 1951) is an American white supremacist and neo-Nazi activist known for his failed 2012-2013 attempt to take over Leith, North Dakota, his 2014 terrorizing plea, and a DNA test showing 14% sub-Saharan African ancestry.
Daisy Bates (activist)
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1914–1999), Arkansas civil rights leader, NAACP state president, and co-publisher of the Arkansas State Press, mentored the Little Rock Nine during the 1957 Central High desegregation crisis; honored with a Capitol statue and Daisy Gatson Bates Day.
Dan Savage
Dan Savage (born 1964, Chicago) is an American sex-advice columnist, author, and LGBT activist. He created "Savage Love" (The Stranger, 1991), the Savage Lovecast podcast, and co-founded the It Gets Better Project.
Daniel Haqiqatjou
Daniel Haqiqatjou, American Muslim writer born in Houston to Iranian parents, founder of The Muslim Skeptic and Alasna Institute, known for anti-feminist, anti-liberal writings and public debates.
David Hogg
David Hogg (born 2000) is an American gun control activist, Parkland shooting survivor, and March for Our Lives co-founder who later served briefly as DNC vice chair in 2025 and founded Leaders We Deserve.
David Myatt
David Myatt is a British former neo-Nazi ideologue who converted to Islam in 1998 as Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt and later renounced extremism through his Pathei-Mathos philosophy.
Denis Kearney
Denis Kearney (c. 1847-1907), Irish-born San Francisco agitator, founded the Workingmen's Party of California in 1877 and led anti-Chinese agitation with the slogan "The Chinese must go!"
Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey (c. 1767–1822), also known as Telemaque, was a free Black Charleston carpenter hanged in 1822 for allegedly plotting a large slave insurrection set for Bastille Day; 35 were executed, and historians still dispute whether the plot was real.
DeRay Mckesson
DeRay Mckesson (born 1985, Baltimore) is a civil rights activist, former school administrator, and co-founder of Campaign Zero who rose to prominence during the 2014 Ferguson protests, hosted Pod Save The People, and ran sixth in Baltimore's 2016 mayoral primary.
Dexter King
Dexter Scott King (1961-2024), younger son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King; chaired the King Center, led the King estate's intellectual property, met James Earl Ray, and died of prostate cancer.
Diane Nash
Diane Judith Nash (born 1938, Chicago) is an American civil rights leader, SNCC co-founder, and Nashville sit-in chair who coordinated the 1961 Freedom Rides and co-planned the Selma voting-rights campaign; awarded the 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Donald Trump and religion
Donald Trump and religion: his Presbyterian upbringing under Norman Vincent Peale, 2020 shift to nondenominational Christianity, the white evangelical voting bloc, the White House Faith Office, and public doubts about his personal religiosity.
Donna Rice Hughes
Donna Rice Hughes, American Internet safety advocate, president and CEO of Enough Is Enough; formerly the woman at the center of the 1987 Gary Hart presidential campaign scandal.
Douglas Gowan
Douglas Gowan (c. 1942–2018) was a British NFU consultant and whistleblower who traced deformed livestock near Brofiscin and Maendy quarries in south Wales to Monsanto's PCB dumping, survived a 1970s corporate smear campaign, and gave a final testimony recorded by Michael Sheen.
Ed Roberts (activist)
Ed Roberts (1939–1995), American disability rights activist and father of the Independent Living movement; first severely disabled UC Berkeley student, founder of the Center for Independent Living, and California Rehabilitation director.
Eglantyne Jebb
Eglantyne Jebb (1876–1928) was a British teacher and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born 1941), Little Rock Nine member who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957; her solo walk through a mob on September 4, 1957, photographed by Will Counts, became an iconic civil rights image.
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich (1911–1958), Tlingit name Kaaxgal.aat, was a Tlingit civil rights leader whose 1945 testimony helped pass Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act, the first broad anti-discrimination law in the United States.
Ella Baker
Ella Josephine Baker (1903–1986), American civil rights organizer; NAACP director of branches, SCLC executive secretary, and organizer of the April 1960 Shaw University conference that founded SNCC, advocating group-centered, grassroots leadership.
Emma Vigeland
Emma Vigeland (born 1994) is an American progressive commentator, co-host of The Majority Report with Sam Seder and host of the Emmajority Report, formerly a field reporter and producer at The Young Turks.
Ethel Kennedy
Ethel Skakel Kennedy (1928-2024), American human rights activist, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, mother of 11 children, founder of RFK Human Rights, and 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), sister of President John F. Kennedy and wife of Sargent Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in 1968 after starting Camp Shriver in 1962, and received the 1984 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Fred Hampton Jr.
Fred Hampton Jr. (born 1969) is a Chicago activist, son of slain Illinois Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton and Akua Njeri. He leads the Black Panther Party Cubs, founded the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, served nine years in prison, and consulted on Judas and the Black Messiah.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an American abolitionist, orator, and publisher who escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 and became a leading spokesman for abolition.
Freya Leach
Freya Leach is an Australian conservative political commentator and director of the Centre for Youth Policy at the Menzies Research Centre. She was a Liberal Party candidate in 2023.
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1922). First League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; creator of the Nansen passport; first to cross Greenland's inland ice; Fram expedition record at 86° 14′ N.
Gangubai Kothewali (गंगूबाई कोठेवाली)
Gangubai Kothewali (गंगूबाई कोठेवाली), born Ganga Harjeevandas Kathiawadi (1907–1977), was a Mumbai brothel madam and sex workers' rights figure in Kamathipura, later depicted in Bhansali's 2022 film Gangubai Kathiawadi.
Gary Webb
Gary Webb (1955–2004) was an American investigative journalist whose 1996 San Jose Mercury News series "Dark Alliance" linked Contra cocaine trafficking to the Los Angeles crack epidemic, triggering a media backlash and government investigations.
Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್)
Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್), Kannada journalist and activist, editor of Lankesh Patrike and Gauri Lankesh Patrike, critic of right-wing politics, shot dead in Bengaluru on 5 September 2017; trial ongoing, no convictions as of 2025.
George Padmore
George Padmore, born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a Trinidadian Pan-Africanist writer and organizer who led the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress and advised Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.