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Ralph Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy (1926–1990) was a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest friend, co-founder of the SCLC, and its second president (1968–1977), leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Poor People's Campaign.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Lebanese-American journalist based in Beirut who hosts Dispatches and co-hosts BT Live on BreakThrough News, reporting on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy.
Rape by proxy
Rape by proxy: sexual violence committed by a local perpetrator at the direction or payment of a remote customer, notably in live-streamed child abuse; the customer can be indicted for rape without traveling, as in the 2023 French case.
Redeemed Zoomer
Redeemed Zoomer, real name Richard Ackerman (born 2002), is an American Presbyterian YouTuber and seminary student whose denominations explainer passed 14.5 million views and who leads Operation Reconquista, a Gen Z conservative-reform movement targeting mainline Protestant churches, notably the PCUSA.
Relationship of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
Friendship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: Palm Beach neighbors from the late 1980s, at least seven flights on Epstein's jet in the 1990s, a 2004 falling out, and disputed claims in the released Epstein files.
Relationship of Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein
The relationship of Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein was a financial and business association that began in the mid-1980s. Epstein became a trusted adviser to Wexner and received broad authority over his.
Relationship of Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein
The friendship between Prince Andrew (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor), Duke of York, and Jeffrey Epstein: met via Ghislaine Maxwell around 1999, contact continued past Epstein's 2008 conviction, Giuffre's 2021 lawsuit settled in 2022, and Andrew lost all titles in 2025.
Religious discrimination
Religious discrimination: unfavorable treatment based on religion or belief, or lack of it. Covered by Title VII, the UN 1981 Declaration, and EU law; measured by Pew and FRA surveys of harassment and hiring bias.
Rennie Davis
Rennie Davis (Rennard Cordon Davis, 1940-2021) was an SDS leader, MOBE project director, and Chicago Seven defendant convicted of inciting a riot and later overturned on appeal; he later followed Guru Maharaj Ji and worked on environmental projects.
Repatriation of Koreans from Japan
The repatriation of Koreans from Japan was the return of ethnic Korean residents to Korea, mass voluntary after 1945 and state-coordinated to North Korea from 1959.
Residential school denialism
Residential school denialism in Canada is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about the Indian Residential School system to undermine truth and reconciliation; measured at roughly one in five Canadians, it surged after the 2021 Kamloops unmarked-graves announcements and prompted education programs and criminalization debates.
Resource mobilization
Resource mobilization theory, associated with McCarthy and Zald's 1977 paper, explains social movements through resources, organization, and political opportunity rather than grievances, displacing breakdown theories and later spawning political process and digital-era reformulations.
Respectability politics
Respectability politics: strategy in which members of marginalized groups conform to dominant social norms to seek advancement; coined by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham for Black Baptist women, later applied to LGBTQ and other groups.
Retard (pejorative)
Retard (pejorative), the R-word: an English slur for people with intellectual disability, derived from Latin retardare "to slow"; noun recorded 1788, slur sense 1970, retired from US federal law by Rosa's Law in 2010.
Return to the Land
Return to the Land (RTTL) is an American white separatist group founded by Eric Orwoll and Peter Csere, running a 160-acre whites-only community near Ravenden, Arkansas, since 2023, structured as a private membership association to evade fair housing law and facing federal discrimination lawsuits.
Reverse racism
Reverse racism: alleged prejudice or discrimination against majority or historically dominant groups, especially white people, tied to affirmative action and DEI debates; distinct from the legal term reverse discrimination and contested over whether racism requires power.
Revilo P. Oliver
Revilo P. Oliver (1908-1994) was a University of Illinois classics professor and classical philologist who co-founded the John Birch Society, wrote "Marxmanship in Dallas," and became a leading intellectual figure of American white nationalism.
Rhonda Louise Williams
Rhonda Williams, UCCS professor emerita of counseling and human services, school counseling program coordinator, ASCA ethics chair, Smart-Girl program founder, and 2025 UCCS distinguished alumna.
Richard B. Spencer
Richard B. Spencer, born Richard Bertrand Spencer, is an American white nationalist credited with coining "alt-right" in 2008 and who led the National Policy Institute through 2016 and 2017.
Richard Girnt Butler
Richard Girnt Butler (1918–2004) was an American white supremacist and Christian Identity minister who took over the Church of Jesus Christ Christian and built it into the Aryan Nations at Hayden Lake, Idaho.
Rick Hansen
Rick Hansen (born 1957) is a Canadian Paralympian and disability advocate whose 1985-1987 Man In Motion World Tour covered 40,000 km through 34 countries, raising $26 million, and who founded the Rick Hansen Foundation in 1988.
Ridvan Aydemir
Ridvan Aydemir, known online as Apostate Prophet, is a Turkish-German ex-Muslim YouTuber born in Germany, formerly devout Sunni Muslim, then atheist, converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 2025, critiquing Islam and debating apologists.
Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Maya human rights activist from Guatemala. She won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on indigenous rights and social justice.
Rind et al. controversy
Rind et al. controversy: dispute over the 1998 Psychological Bulletin meta-analysis by Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman of 59 college-sample CSA studies, its congressional condemnation, and scholarly critiques and rebuttals.
Rita Schwerner Bender
Rita Schwerner Bender, American civil rights activist and family law attorney, widow of CORE worker Michael Schwerner, killed by Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer; later an ACLU and public defender lawyer in Seattle and prosecution witness at the 2005 Killen trial.
Rob K. Henderson
Rob K. Henderson, American writer and psychologist (Yale BS; Cambridge PhD), coined 'luxury beliefs' in 2019 and wrote the 2024 memoir Troubled about foster care, family, and social class.
Robby Starbuck
Robby Starbuck, Nashville-based conservative activist and former music video director, led 2024 anti-DEI campaigns against Tractor Supply, Ford, Walmart and others, then sued Meta over AI defamation and became its AI-bias adviser in an August 2025 settlement.
Roblox ban protests in Russia
Roblox ban protests in Russia: children's and parents' demonstrations and 63,000 complaint letters after Roskomnadzor blocked Roblox on December 3, 2025, over child-safety and LGBT-propaganda claims; the ban was lifted June 10, 2026.
Rochester racial slur video incident
The Rochester racial slur video incident: Shiloh Hendrix called a Black autistic boy a slur at Soldiers Field Park in April 2025; Sharmake Omar's viral video led to charges and a 2026 split verdict.
Roger Hallam (activist)
Roger Hallam (Julian Roger Hallam) is the British activist who co-founded Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, and Just Stop Oil; a former Welsh organic farmer and King's College London civil-disobedience researcher, he received a five-year prison sentence in July 2024 for the M25 gantry protest conspiracy, reduced to four years in March 2025.