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Alternative media
Alternative media: nonmainstream media forms, also called citizen, radical, or movement media, that are smaller-scale, participatory, and often oppositional; studied through protest coverage, trust effects, and misinformation risk.
Alveda King
Alveda King (born 1951), American evangelist and anti-abortion activist, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.; twice elected Georgia state representative, Priests for Life outreach director, Fox News contributor, AFPI American Dream chair.
Amanda Nguyen
Amanda Nguyen (born 1991), Vietnamese-American activist and bioastronautics scientist, founded Rise, championed the 2016 Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, and became the first Vietnamese woman in space on Blue Origin's NS-31 flight, April 14, 2025.
Amrita Devi
Amrita Devi (Imarta Devi), Bishnoi woman of Khejarli village near Jodhpur, killed in September 1730 defending khejri trees from Maharaja Abhay Singh's soldiers; her death began the Khejarli massacre of 363 Bishnois and inspired India's wildlife awards and Chipko.
Amy Mek
Amy Mek is the online pseudonym of Amy Mekelburg, an American far-right commentator and anti-Islam activist from New York who founded RAIR Foundation USA and was identified by journalists in 2018.
Anchor baby
Anchor baby: pejorative US political term for a child born to non-citizen parents, implying planned birth for citizenship; also niño ancla, bebê âncora. No legal meaning; citizen children sponsor parents only at 21.
Andy Ngo
Andy Ngo, also known as Andy Cuong Ngô, is an American conservative journalist, photographer, and author known for covering antifa and for his 2021 bestseller Unmasked.
Anglican Use
Anglican Use: Catholic liturgical use for former Episcopalians created by the 1980 Pastoral Provision of John Paul II, using the Book of Divine Worship; a use of the Roman Rite, succeeded by Divine Worship in the Personal Ordinariates.
Angolan post-war urban migration
Angolan post-war urban migration is the continued movement of people from rural Angola into cities after the civil war ended in 2002, especially into the capital Luanda.
Ann Atwater
Ann Atwater (1935–2016) was a Durham, North Carolina civil rights and housing activist who co-chaired the 1971 school desegregation charrette with Klansman C.P. Ellis, converting him into a lifelong friend and civil rights ally.
Ann Rockefeller Roberts
Ann Rockefeller Roberts (1934–2024), eldest daughter of Nelson Rockefeller, was a Native American rights activist, founder of the Fund of the Four Directions, first funder of Women's World Banking, and author of Mr. Rockefeller's Roads.
Anna Hazare
Anna Hazare (Kisan Baburao Hazare, born 1940) is an Indian Gandhian social activist from Ralegan Siddhi, Maharashtra, whose 2011 hunger strikes against corruption led to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013.
Anne Marie Hochhalter
Anne Marie Hochhalter, Columbine High School shooting survivor paralyzed in the April 20, 1999 attack; forgave Sue Klebold in a 2016 letter; died February 16, 2025 of sepsis, ruled a homicide, raising Columbine's death toll to 14.
Annie Glenn
Annie Glenn (Anna Margaret Castor Glenn, 1920-2020), wife of astronaut-senator John Glenn for 73 years and American advocate for people with communication disorders, overcame a severe 85% stutter via Hollins therapy in 1973 and became an Ohio State adjunct speech pathology professor.
Anthony Shriver
Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (born 1965), son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, American social entrepreneur who founded Best Buddies International in 1989; its founder, Chairman & CEO, living in Miami Beach.
Anti-abortion violence
Anti-abortion violence: murders, bombings, arsons, clinic invasions, and harassment targeting US abortion providers since the 1970s; 11 murders and 42 bombings since 1977, addressed by the 1994 FACE Act.
Anti-African sentiment
Anti-African sentiment, also called Afrophobia, is prejudice and discrimination against Africans, people of African descent, and African migrants, rooted in slavery and colonialism, documented by UN bodies, and addressed through reparations and anti-racism frameworks.
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism is hostility toward the United States, its policies, culture, or people, measured mainly through surveys like Pew's Global Attitudes Project. Key figures: the 2003 Iraq War collapse in favorability and the sharp 2025 decline under Trump.
Anti-Apartheid Movement
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), 1959–1994, campaigned through boycotts, sanctions, sports embargoes, and prisoner campaigns to isolate apartheid South Africa; founded from the 1959 boycott committee, renamed after Sharpeville in 1960, its archive is at Oxford's Bodleian Library.
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world: prejudice against Black people in Arabic-speaking MENA societies, rooted in precolonial slavery and ninth-century race-thinking, examined via Arab Barometer surveys, Kadhem's 2004 study, and the Arab-Islamic slavery terminology debate.
Anti-Chinese sentiment
Anti-Chinese sentiment, also called Sinophobia, is hostility toward Chinese people or China, spanning the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, COVID-19-era anti-Asian hate crimes, and spillover discrimination against Asian Americans.
Anti-Croat sentiment
Anti-Croat sentiment, also called Anti-Croatism, is prejudice against Croats. It is characterized by the collective labeling of Croats as "Ustasha" in Serbian media and politics.
Anti-German sentiment
Anti-German sentiment: hostility toward Germans, people of German descent, or the German state, also called Germanophobia. Peaked in WWI and WWII with internment, language bans, and expulsions; documented today in Austria and EU-policy debates.
Anti-globalization movement
Anti-globalization movement: also called alter-globalization or global justice movement, a transnational protest wave of the mid-1990s to early 2000s opposing neoliberal globalization, marked by the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the World Social Forum.
Anti-Henan sentiment
Anti-Henan sentiment (河南人歧视) is regional discrimination against people from Henan Province, China, marked by the 'dishonest Henan' stereotype, media amplification, hukou-linked structural roots, and the first Chinese regional discrimination lawsuit.
Anti-Irish sentiment
Anti-Irish sentiment: hostility toward Irish people in Britain and America, spanning Victorian stereotypes, Know-Nothings, the contested 'No Irish Need Apply' signs, racialization, and twentieth-century persistence.
Anti-Japanese sentiment
Anti-Japanese sentiment: hostility toward Japan or Japanese people, also called anti-Japanism. Appears in East Asia (colonial memory, Chinese patriotic education, Korean comfort women issue) and in U.S. exclusion and internment history.
Anti-racism
Anti-racism: beliefs, actions, movements, and policies opposing racism to build an egalitarian society. Also called antiracism; spans abolitionism, civil rights, anti-apartheid, and Black Lives Matter, with liberal versus structural theoretical strands.
Anti-Russian sentiment
Anti-Russian sentiment, or Russophobia, is prejudice or hostility toward Russia and Russians, documented in Europe since the 15th century; the term is also used by the Kremlin to dismiss criticism.
Anti-Saloon League
The Anti-Saloon League, founded 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio by Howard Hyde Russell and nationally organized in 1895, was a non-partisan single-issue temperance lobby led by Wayne Wheeler that pioneered pressure politics and drove the Eighteenth Amendment.