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International Dog Day
International Dog Day, also called National Dog Day or Dog Appreciation Day, is an August 26 observance founded in 2004 by Colleen Paige, marking the date her family adopted a Sheltie, that celebrates dogs and encourages shelter adoption, distinct from World Dog Day (May, Vanderpump Dog Foundation) and National Rescue Dog Day (May 20).
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) is a Chicago-based nonprofit founded in 1983 by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein that raises Christian donations for Jewish humanitarian aid.
Interview
A research interview is a planned, recorded conversation used as data in a study, following a guide of questions and requiring ethics review before data collection.
Iqbal Masih
Iqbal Masih (اقبال مسیح), 1983–1995, Pakistani Christian boy sold into bonded carpet-weaving at age 4, escaped via the BLLF, helped free thousands of child laborers, won the 1994 Reebok Human Rights Award, and was murdered at 12 in Muridke.
Isaac Woodard
Isaac Woodard Jr., African American WWII sergeant, beaten and blinded by Batesburg, South Carolina police chief Lynwood Shull on February 12, 1946, hours after discharge; acquittal by an all-white jury spurred Truman's civil rights committee and military desegregation.
Ishaan Tharoor
Ishaan Tharoor (born 1984, Singapore) is an American foreign-affairs journalist, son of Shashi Tharoor; longtime Washington Post Today's WorldView columnist, now New Yorker Global Notes writer and CFR Murrow Press Fellow.
Islamophobia
Islamophobia: fear, prejudice, and hostility toward Islam and Muslims, treated by scholars as cultural racism. Term coined by Alain Quellien (1910), popularized by the 1997 Runnymede Trust report and post-9/11 discourse; no agreed definition, rising hate crime.
Islamophobic trope
Islamophobic tropes are recurring stereotypes casting Islam and Muslims as violent, alien, or oppressive, including the terrorist image, the downtrodden Muslim woman, and cultural incompatibility narratives; documented from medieval Europe through contemporary Western media and measured by indices of anti-Muslim prejudice.
Jack Whittaker (lottery winner)
Jack Whittaker (1947-2020), West Virginia construction contractor who won a $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on December 25, 2002, then the largest single-ticket US lottery jackpot; took a $113.4 million cash option, later faced thefts, lawsuits, and family deaths.
Jackie Long
Jackie Long is a British journalist, Social Affairs Editor and presenter at Channel 4 News since 2011, after two decades at the BBC including Newsnight; known for the Yarl's Wood undercover investigation.
Jacob Hersant
Jacob Hersant (born c. 1998) is an Australian neo-Nazi who co-leads the National Socialist Network with Thomas Sewell and was the first person convicted, and later jailed, under Victoria's Nazi salute ban.
Jacqueline Saburido
Jacqueline "Jacqui" Saburido (1978–2019), Venezuelan survivor of a September 19, 1999 drunk-driving crash near Austin, Texas, that burned over 60% of her body; her image anchored TxDOT's Before and After and Faces of Drunk Driving campaigns from 2002 onward.
James Chaney
James Earl Chaney (1943–1964), Meridian, Mississippi CORE civil rights worker murdered with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman during Freedom Summer in Neshoba County; 1967 federal conspiracy convictions, 2005 Killen manslaughter conviction, 2014 posthumous Medal of Freedom.
James F. Blake
James F. Blake (1913-2002) was the Montgomery, Alabama bus driver who ordered Rosa Parks to give up her seat on December 1, 1955, precipitating the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott and Browder v. Gayle.
James Farmer
James Farmer (1920–1999), American civil rights leader, co-founder and national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), architect of the 1961 Freedom Rides, later HEW assistant secretary and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
James Meredith
James Howard Meredith, born in 1933, is an American civil rights activist who became the first African American student admitted to the University of Mississippi.
James O'Keefe
James O'Keefe, American conservative activist, founder of Project Veritas (2010) and O'Keefe Media Group; known for ACORN and NPR hidden-camera stings, a 2010 misdemeanor conviction, civil judgments, and his 2023 removal from Veritas.
James R. Jordan Sr.
James R. Jordan Sr. (1936-1993), father of Michael Jordan, GE worker murdered July 23, 1993 near Lumberton, NC; Daniel Green and Larry Demery convicted 1996, evidence disputes persist.
James Reeb
James Reeb (1927–1965) was a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston beaten to death in Selma, Alabama, on March 9–11, 1965; his killers were acquitted, and his death spurred the Voting Rights Act.
Jane Addams
Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social reformer and pacifist who co-founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott (born 1933), American teacher from Riceville, Iowa, creator of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes discrimination exercise first run with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, later a diversity trainer.
Japan Labor Union Council
The Japan Labor Union Council (Hyōgikai) was Japan's first nationwide federation of left-wing labor unions, founded in 1925 under Communist Party influence and banned in 1928.
Jared Taylor
Jared Taylor (born 1951) is an American white nationalist writer, founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of American Renaissance, who calls himself a race realist; SPLC and ADL classify him as a white supremacist.
Jason Kessler
Jason Kessler, UVA graduate and Charlottesville resident, white nationalist organizer of the 2017 Unite the Right rally, later a litigant over his revoked permit, consent-decree signatory, and Unite the Right 2 organizer.
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima (born 1963) is a Burundian HIV/AIDS and human rights activist who in 1994 became the first woman in Burundi to disclose publicly she was living with HIV.
Jeffrey Wigand
Jeffrey Wigand, American biochemist and former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson Tobacco, whistleblower on nicotine manipulation exposed in 60 Minutes and The Insider.
Jeltoqsan
Jeltoqsan (Желтоқсан, Kazakh for "December"), also spelled Zheltoksan, was a series of mass youth protests that began in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 17, 1986, and were violently suppressed by Soviet forces.
Jena Six
The Jena Six, also known as the Jena 6, were six African-American Louisiana high school students whose 2006 attempted-murder prosecution became a national racial justice flashpoint.
Jenna Miscavige Hill
Jenna Miscavige Hill (born 1984), American former Scientologist, niece of church leader David Miscavige, daughter of Ron Miscavige Jr.; author of the 2013 memoir Beyond Belief and co-founder of ExScientologyKids.com after leaving the Sea Org in 2005.
Jerry Rubin
Jerry Rubin (1938-1994), American counterculture activist, co-founded the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman, organized the 1967 Pentagon march, was a Chicago Seven defendant, then became a Wall Street venture banker.