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Mazdak (مزدک)
Mazdak (مزدک), son of Bāmdād, led Mazdakism, an egalitarian Zoroastrian-derived movement under Sasanian king Kawād I (488–531), preaching common property; suppressed by Khusrau I.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers (1925–1963), NAACP's first Mississippi field secretary, World War II Army veteran, voter-registration organizer, and James Meredith ally, assassinated June 12, 1963 in Jackson by Byron De La Beckwith, convicted in 1994.
Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar (born 1954) is an Indian social activist, founder-leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan against the Sardar Sarovar Dam, National Convenor of NAPM, and Right Livelihood Award (1991) and Goldman Prize (1992) recipient.
Media bias
Media bias: systematic slant in news selection, framing, or presentation toward political or organizational interests. Also covered via the Media Bias Taxonomy (linguistic, cognitive, context, reporting types), objectivity history, and Ad Fontes/AllSides rating scales.
Meena Harris
Meena Harris (Meenakshi Ashley Harris), born 1984, is an American lawyer, author, and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, and the niece of Kamala Harris.
Meg Mathews
Meg Mathews, British former music and fashion PR, ex-wife of Noel Gallagher, Britpop figure turned menopause campaigner via MegsMenopause, #MegsMenopause, and the book The New Hot.
Megan Phelps-Roper
Megan Phelps-Roper (born 1986), granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, tweeted for the Topeka church before leaving it in November 2012 with sister Grace; author of Unfollow, TED speaker, producer of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling podcast.
Mercy
Mercy: compassionate forbearance or relief toward someone within one's power to punish or abandon, expressed through the works of mercy, zakat, clemency, and organizations from the Misericordie (1244) to the Sisters of Mercy and modern humanitarian agencies.
Mexican Student Movement of 1968
The Mexican Student Movement of 1968 was a wave of student protest in Mexico City against President Díaz Ordaz's government, ending with the army firing on a rally in Tlatelolco on October 2.
Michael Schwerner
Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner, New York CORE organizer and project director for Mississippi's 4th District, murdered with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman by Klansmen on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer; led to the 1967 Price convictions and Killen's 2005 manslaughter conviction.
Michael X
Michael X, born Michael de Freitas, was a Trinidad-born civil rights activist, the most publicized figure of Britain's Black Power movement, hanged in Trinidad in 1975 for murder.
Microaggression
Microaggression: term coined by Chester Pierce (1970) and revived by Derald Wing Sue (2007) for brief, often unintentional slights communicating hostile messages toward marginalized groups, with three subtypes (microassault, microinsult, microinvalidation) and an active scientific debate.
Mike Barnicle
Mike Barnicle is an American journalist and political commentator who wrote over 4,000 columns for The Boston Globe. He resigned in 1998.
Mike Ma
Mike Ma is the pen name of Mike Mahoney, American far-right ecofascist writer, author of Harassment Architecture and Gothic Violence and founder of the Pine Tree Party movement.
Mike Rothschild
Mike Rothschild is an American journalist and author specializing in conspiracy theories, known for The Storm Is Upon Us (2021) on QAnon and Jewish Space Lasers (2023); no relation to the banking family.
Million Man March
The Million Man March, a mass gathering of African American men on Washington's National Mall on October 16, 1995, called by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan; theme of atonement and responsibility, disputed attendance of 400,000 to over 1 million.
Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: false claims around Hurricanes Helene and Milton, including weather-modification conspiracies, FEMA diversion rumors, and political amplification, debunked by NOAA, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.org.
Miss Cosmo 2024
Miss Cosmo 2024 was the inaugural Miss Cosmo beauty pageant, held in Vietnam and won by Indonesia's Ketut Permata Juliastrid, with Thailand's Mook Karnruethai Tassabut as runner-up; the Grand Finale took place October 5, 2024, in Ho Chi Minh City.
Miss France 2026
Miss France 2026, the 96th edition held 6 December 2025 at the Zénith d'Amiens, was won by Hinaupoko Devèze, Miss Tahiti 2025, succeeding Angélique Angarni-Filopon; the public vote decided a tied final before 6.7 million TF1 viewers.
Miss Teen International 2026
Miss Teen International 2026: the Glamanand-run teen pageant edition won by Cuba's Jhoanna Uranga in Jaipur, India, on August 31, 2026; Namibia's Chantel Boeren was first runner-up. Distinct US and Ecuadorian pageants share the same name.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW, MMIWG, MMIWG2S, MMIP): the crisis of disproportionate violence against Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people in North America, marked by Canada's 2016-2019 national inquiry and 231 Calls for Justice, U.S. legislation such as Savanna's Act, and red dress advocacy.
Missing person
Missing person: a person whose whereabouts are unknown or unexplained to family, social, or work environments. Covers definitions, US NCIC and NamUs databases, ICMP identification work, risk assessment, and data limitations.
Missing white woman syndrome
Missing white woman syndrome, coined by Gwen Ifill in 2004, describes US media's disproportionate coverage of missing young white women versus people of color, confirmed empirically by Sommers's 2016 study.
Mitzi Perdue
Mitzi Perdue (née Henderson, born 1941), American author, rice farmer, and anti-human-trafficking advocate; founder of Win This Fight, past president of American Agri-Women, Scripps Howard environmental columnist, and Ukraine war correspondent honored with Ukraine's Order of Princess Olga.
Model minority
The model minority is a stereotype portraying Asian Americans as uniformly high-achieving, hardworking, and successful in math and science. Originating in 1966 media coverage, it obscures intra-group disparities and has been used against other communities of color.
Mohsen Mahdawi (محسن مهداوي)
Mohsen Mahdawi (محسن مهداوي), Palestinian activist and Columbia graduate student, arrested by ICE at his 2025 Vermont naturalization interview, freed by Judge Crawford, and still fighting a 2026 removal order to Jordan.
Moorish sovereign citizens
Moorish sovereign citizens, an offshoot of the sovereign citizen movement since the 1990s, combine Moorish Science Temple identity claims with pseudolaw, claiming immunity from US law through homemade documents, false liens, and rejected court arguments.
Moral Re-Armament
Moral Re-Armament (MRA), also called the Oxford Group or Buchmanism, now Initiatives of Change, was Frank Buchman's international moral and spiritual movement founded 1938, known for the four absolutes and Caux reconciliation conferences.
Morenazi
Morenazi (plural morenazis; variant morenario) is a Spanish pejorative blend of moreno (dark-skinned) and nazi for a Latino or mestizo neo-Nazi, documented in Chilean slang and Mexican research on far-right online groups.
Mother and Baby Home
Mother and baby homes were Irish institutions for unmarried mothers, 1922–1998, run mostly by Catholic orders; about 9,000 children died, Tuam's 978 deaths prompted a 2021 state apology, redress, and excavation.