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Mother Angelica
Mother Angelica (Rita Antoinette Rizzo, 1923–2016), Poor Clare nun, founded EWTN in 1981 from an Alabama monastery garage with $200; built a viewer-funded global Catholic network, the Hanceville shrine, and wrote 56 books.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), founded in 1980 by Candace Lightner after her daughter Cari's death, is the largest US nonprofit against drunk driving, credited with the 21 drinking age, .08 BAC laws, ignition interlocks, and victim services.
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Madres de Plaza de Mayo) is an Argentine human rights organization of mothers of people disappeared during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship.
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) is a Nigerian rights organization founded in 1990, led by Ken Saro-Wiwa until his 1995 execution.
MRAsians
MRAsians (MRAzns) is a term for an anti-feminist online subculture of Asian American men within the manosphere, combining men's rights rhetoric with racial grievance and documented harassment of Asian women.
Mughal Harem
Mughal Harem: the imperial women's quarters (haram, haraman-i padshah) of the Mughal dynasty, a secluding yet politically active household where figures like Nur Jahan and Jahanara Begum wielded real power.
Mumtaz Mahal (ممتاز محل)
Mumtaz Mahal (ممتاز محل), born Arjumand Banu Begum (1593-1631), empress consort of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan I; married 1612, died at Burhanpur after her fourteenth child; the Taj Mahal is her tomb.
Muniba Mazari
Muniba Mazari, the "Iron Lady of Pakistan," is a Pakistani artist, TV anchor, and motivational speaker paralyzed in a 2008 car crash; UN Women Pakistan's first Goodwill Ambassador and a UN SDG Advocate since 2025.
Murder of Ahmaud Arbery
Murder of Ahmaud Arbery: 2020 fatal shooting of a 25-year-old Black jogger in Brunswick, Georgia by Travis and Gregory McMichael and Roddie Bryan; state murder convictions, federal hate-crime convictions, Georgia law changes.
Murder of Blaze Bernstein
Murder of Blaze Bernstein: 2018 hate-crime killing of gay Jewish UPenn student Blaze Bernstein by former classmate Samuel Woodward, an Atomwaffen Division member, convicted July 2024 and sentenced to life without parole.
Murder of Gwen Araujo
The murder of Gwen Araujo was the 2002 killing of Gwen Amber Rose Araujo, a 17-year-old transgender girl beaten and strangled by four men in Newark, California.
Murder of James Byrd Jr.
Murder of James Byrd Jr., also called the Jasper dragging death: a 1998 racist hate crime in Jasper, Texas, in which three white supremacists dragged a 49-year-old Black man to death behind a pickup, leading to Texas and federal hate crime laws and two executions.
Murder of Larry King
Murder of Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15-year-old student shot by classmate Brandon McInerney on February 12, 2008 at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California; prosecuted as a hate crime and later reframed as the killing of trans girl Latisha King.
Murder of Sophie Lancaster
Murder of Sophie Lancaster: 2007 killing of a 20-year-old goth in Bacup, Lancashire, with boyfriend Robert Maltby; sentencing judge called it a hate crime; led to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and campaigns to extend UK hate crime law.
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
The June 21, 1964 Klan murders of civil rights volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner near Philadelphia, Mississippi, also called the Mississippi Burning or Freedom Summer murders; eight federal convictions in 1967, Killen's 2005 manslaughter conviction.
Muscle mommy
Muscle mommy (also muscle mami, muscle mummy) is internet and gym slang, spread on TikTok around 2021-2022, for a notably muscular, strong woman, whether or not she is a mother; used admiringly or as self-description, with mixed reception.
Muscular Christianity
Muscular Christianity: Victorian religious movement, also called Christian manliness, linking sport and faith; began as an 1857 joke about a Kingsley novel, spread via the YMCA (London 1844) and shaped American sports, basketball, and the Olympics.
Musk family
Musk family: South African-Canadian-American family known through Elon Musk; parents Errol and Maye, siblings Kimbal and Tosca, 14 reported children; Pretoria origins, 1979 divorce, 1988 emigration.
Mustang Ranch
Mustang Ranch is a licensed legal brothel in Storey County, Nevada, near Reno; the name also denotes Joe Conforte's original ranch, Nevada's first legal brothel (1971), seized by the federal government in 1999 and reopened in 2003 by Lance Gilman at a new Wild Horse Canyon site.
Muxe
Muxe (muxhe, "moo-shey") is the third-gender role of the Zapotec people of Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico: people assigned male at birth who take feminine social roles, central to family, festivals, and the matrifocal isthmus economy.
My Way killings
The My Way killings are fatal karaoke disputes in the Philippines over Frank Sinatra's song 'My Way', also called videoke killings; at least a dozen deaths between 1998 and 2018 led bars to remove the song.
MyEx.com
MyEx.com was a Nevada-operated revenge porn website (EMP Media, launched about 2011) that posted intimate images with personal data and charged $499-$2,800 removal fees; the FTC shut it down in 2018. Distinct from the Saudi MyEx app at my-ex.app.
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams, born Myrlie Louise Beasley in 1933, is an American civil rights activist and journalist, widow of Medgar Evers and NAACP chair from 1995 to 1998.
Mystery of Crowning
Mystery of Crowning (Sacrament of Crowning, stefana) is the central Eastern Orthodox marriage rite in which a priest or bishop crowns bride and groom; unlike the Latin rite, the minister confers the sacrament, and the service has no vows.
NAACP
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), oldest U.S. civil rights organization, founded February 12, 1909 in New York City after the 1908 Springfield riot; won Brown v. Board of Education; led by Derrick Johnson.
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്)
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്), Kerala labourer from Arattupuzha, real-life subject of Benyamin's novel Aadujeevitham (Goat Days) and the 2024 film; kidnapped in Saudi Arabia 1992, held as an unpaid goatherd, escaped 1995 and deported.
Najwa Ghanem
Najwa Ghanem (نجوى غانم), Syrian first wife and first cousin of Osama bin Laden, married 1974, mother of 11, left him before 9/11, co-authored the 2009 memoir Growing Up bin Laden.
Nancy Dell'Olio
Nancy Dell'Olio (Annunziata Dell'Olio), Italian-American lawyer and TV personality, born in New York, raised in Bisceglie; partner of England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson from 2000, later Strictly Come Dancing contestant.
Nancy Heche
Nancy Heche (Nancy Abigail Baker Heche, born March 10, 1937) is an American Christian author and speaker on same-sex attraction, mother of Anne Heche; author of The Truth Comes Out (2006) and a 2009 guide with Joe Dallas.
Nancy Lincoln
Nancy Hanks Lincoln (1784-1818), mother of President Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky pioneer wife of Thomas Lincoln, died of milk sickness in Spencer County, Indiana, and is buried at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.