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Homeless shelter
Homeless shelter: temporary facility for people who are homeless; also called emergency shelter. Distinguished by no lease requirement under 24 CFR 576.2; part of the Continuum of Care alongside transitional and permanent housing.
Homelessness
Homelessness: lacking a stable, adequate home, from rough sleeping to couch surfing; over 300 million affected worldwide (UN-Habitat). Key approaches include Housing First, pioneered by Sam Tsemberis in 1992, and Finland's national strategy that cut homelessness from 16,000 to about 4,000.
Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area
Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: the nine-county region's unhoused population, among the largest in the United States. Third-largest PIT count in 2017 (28,200), 35,118 by 2020, only 33 percent sheltered, concentrated in Alameda, San Francisco, and Santa Clara counties.
Homelessness in the United States
Homelessness in the United States: people lacking a fixed, adequate nighttime residence under 42 U.S.C. 11302. Key facts: McKinney-Vento Act of 1987, HUD Point-in-Time counts (745,652 in 2025), rent-driven causes, Housing First versus Treatment First policy debate.
Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam, also known as Homer Hadley Hickam Jr., is an American author and retired NASA engineer known for Rocket Boys, the 1998 memoir filmed as October Sky.
Homi K. Bhabha
Homi K. Bhabha (born 1949, Bombay) is a postcolonial theorist, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor at Harvard, author of The Location of Culture (1994), known for hybridity, ambivalence, mimicry, and the Third Space.
Hosea Williams
Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000), American civil rights leader, SCLC executive director and King aide; co-led Bloody Sunday in Selma with John Lewis, led the 1987 Forsyth County march, served in Georgia politics, founded Hosea Helps.
Housing First
Housing First is a homelessness intervention that provides immediate permanent housing without requiring sobriety or treatment, developed by Sam Tsemberis in New York City in 1992.
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York is Jacob Riis's 1890 Scribner's book documenting New York tenement poverty with flash photography; it founded American social documentary photography and prompted tenement reform.
Hromada movement
The Hromada movement (громадівський рух) was a Ukrainian national movement operating in the Russian Empire during the 19th century. It promoted cultural and educational activities despite strong imperial repression.
Hubert Harrison
Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a St. Croix–born, Harlem-based writer, orator, and activist called "the father of Harlem radicalism" who led socialist and New Negro movements.
Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton (Huey Percy Newton, 1942–1989) co-founded the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in Oakland in 1966, served as Minister of Defense, earned a UC Santa Cruz Ph.D., lived in Cuban exile, and was shot dead in Oakland in 1989.
Human Diversity Foundation
Human Diversity Foundation (HDF), also Human Diversity Foundation LLC, is a private company founded by Emil Kirkegaard in 2022 that funds scientific racism research and media such as Aporia, funded by $1.3 million from Andrew Conru.
Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid is emergency assistance to people affected by conflict, disaster, or crisis, guided by humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence. It spans the ICRC (founded 1863), UN agencies coordinated by OCHA, and NGOs; 2025 appeals of about $47 billion were less than 17 percent funded by August.
Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism: organized relief of suffering based on need, defined by humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence. Founded with Dunant's Red Cross (1863) and Geneva Convention (1864), now a global sector with the ICRC, IFRC, and 191 National Societies.
Hungarian railway strike of 1912
The Hungarian railway strike of 1912 was a general strike called in Budapest on 23 May 1912, in which about 100,000 workers stopped work to demand universal suffrage and the resignation of Prime Minister István Tisza.
Hunger
Hunger is lack of regular access to enough food for an active, healthy life. Measured by FAO's Prevalence of Undernourishment and the Food Insecurity Experience Scale in the annual SOFI report; SOFI 2026 found hunger at 7.8 percent of the world population.
Hunger strike
Hunger strike: refusal of food as protest, famous among suffragettes (Marion Wallace Dunlop, 1909), Irish republicans (MacSwiney, 1981 Maze), and detainees; governed medically by the WMA Declaration of Malta.
Hydeia Broadbent
Hydeia Loren Broadbent (1984–2024), American HIV/AIDS activist born HIV-positive, nationally known from a 1992 Nickelodeon special with Magic Johnson, Oprah appearance, and 1996 Republican Convention speech; died February 20, 2024, in Las Vegas at 39.
I can't breathe
"I can't breathe" protest slogan from Eric Garner's 2014 last words and George Floyd's 2020 death; rallying cry of Black Lives Matter against police violence, later extended to COVID-19 and climate contexts.
I Have a Dream
"I Have a Dream," Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech of 28 August 1963 at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Lincoln Memorial; partly improvised refrain earlier used in Detroit; 2002 National Recording Registry.
Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi (born Ibram Henry Rogers, 1982), also Ibram Xolani Kendi, American historian of racism and antiracist scholar; National Book Award winner for Stamped from the Beginning, author of How to Be an Antiracist, founding director of BU's Center for Antiracist Research, now at Howard University.
Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge is a viral charity dare, famous from summer 2014, in which participants dump ice water on themselves on video and nominate others within 24 hours, raising $115 million for ALS research including the NEK1 gene discovery.
Illegal immigration to India
Illegal immigration to India: foreign nationals entering without valid travel documents or overstaying visas. Governed by the Citizenship Act 1955 and Immigration and Foreigners Act 2025; enforcement concentrated in Assam, with about 1.9 million excluded from its NRC.
Independent Living
Independent living: disability-rights philosophy and movement, founded in Berkeley in 1972 by Ed Roberts and others, holding that people with disabilities control their own lives; implemented through over 350 U.S. centers for independent living under Rehabilitation Act Title VII.
Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (South Africa)
The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) was a general trade union for black, Coloured, and Indian workers in South Africa, founded in Cape Town in 1919.
Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future, the 35,000-word Unabomber manifesto by Theodore Kaczynski (FC), published by the Washington Post in 1995, arguing industrial society cannot be reformed and must be destroyed.
Institutional racism
Institutional racism: racial discrimination embedded in institutional policies, practices, and procedures; coined by Carmichael and Hamilton in Black Power (1967); distinct from structural racism, which operates across institutions.
Internal resistance to apartheid
Internal resistance to apartheid: South African opposition inside the country, from the 1960 banning of the ANC and PAC, through Black Consciousness (SASO 1969), the 1976 Soweto Uprising, black trade unions, and the UDF (1983), to the states of emergency of 1985-1986.
International Day of Yoga
International Day of Yoga, a UN observance on 21 June since 2015, established by resolution 69/131 after Narendra Modi's 2014 UNGA proposal; annual themes include Yoga for Healthy Ageing (2026).