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Racism in Europe
Racism in Europe: belief in group superiority or contempt based on race, colour, religion or origin, per ECRI's definition. Covers historical scientific racism, EU Racial Equality Directive, anti-racism action plan 2020-2025 and 2026-2030 strategy, FRA survey prevalence data, and equality data gaps.
Racism in Russia
Racism in Russia: racialization and discrimination against Central Asian migrants, Roma, Caucasus peoples, and Africans, rooted in Soviet-era ethnicity politics and intensified by post-2024 anti-migrant laws and hate violence.
Racism in South Africa
Racism in South Africa, rooted in colonial segregation and apartheid (1948–1994), persists in schools, labour markets, and wealth distribution despite the 1994 constitution, SAHRC complaints data, employment equity disputes, and xenophobia and US-refugee controversies.
Racism in the United Kingdom
Racism in the United Kingdom: prejudice and discrimination by race or ethnicity, shaped by postwar Commonwealth migration. Key facts: Race Relations Act 1965, Equality Act 2010, 98,799 race hate crimes (YE March 2024), Black people stopped and searched at 4.1 times the White rate.
Racism in the United States
Racism in the United States, also called systemic or structural racism, is the system of beliefs, laws, and institutional practices producing racial inequality, rooted in slavery and Jim Crow and measurable today in wealth, health, policing, and education gaps.
Radical feminism
Radical feminism, also called radfem, is a second-wave feminist tendency identifying patriarchy as the root of women's oppression and seeking fundamental social restructuring; it arose from the 1960s women's liberation movement and popularized "the personal is political."
Rag-and-bone man
Rag-and-bone man, also called totter or bone-picker: an itinerant collector of rags, bones, and scrap, a precursor of modern recycling in Britain from the Middle Ages, declined by the 1980s, revived as van-based scrap collecting.
Raina Knyaginya
Raina Knyaginya (Райна Княгиня), born Raina Popgeorgieva Futekova, was a Bulgarian teacher who sewed and carried the flag of the Panagyurishte rebels in the 1876 April Uprising against Ottoman rule.
Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton)
Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton): the original Rainbow Coalition of Revolutionary Solidarity, a 1969 Chicago multiracial alliance of the Illinois Black Panther Party, Young Lords, and Young Patriots, distinct from Jesse Jackson's later Rainbow PUSH.
Rainbow Family
Rainbow Family of Living Light, also Rainbow Nation: leaderless countercultural network founded 1972 at Strawberry Lake, Colorado, holding annual noncommercial Rainbow Gatherings in national forests each July with consensus councils, free food, and no formal organization.
Rainbow party (sexuality)
Rainbow party: an early-2000s US urban legend about teen group oral sex with colored lipsticks, publicized by Oprah in 2003 and Paul Ruditis's 2005 novel, and debunked by sociologists Joel Best and Kathleen Bogle.
Rajiv Dixit (राजीव दीक्षित)
Rajiv Dixit (राजीव दीक्षित), 1967–2010, Indian swadeshi activist and orator; founded Azadi Bachao Andolan, was National Secretary of Bharat Swabhiman Andolan with Baba Ramdev, left 5,000+ Hindi lectures; died on his 43rd birthday amid disputed circumstances.
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.
Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar (रमाबाई भीमराव आंबेडकर)
Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar (रमाबाई भीमराव आंबेडकर) was the first wife of B. R. Ambedkar and is remembered in the Ambedkarite movement as a figure of sacrifice.
Randolph McCoy
Randolph "Old Ranel" McCoy (1825-1914), Pike County, Kentucky patriarch of the McCoy clan in the Hatfield-McCoy feud; lost five children, home burned 1888, died by cooking-fire burns.
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.
Rape fantasy
Rape fantasy: a sexual fantasy of forced sex. 31–57% of women report such fantasies, 9–17% frequently; also discussed in feminist sex wars, pornography research, and ethics of fictional depiction.
Rebecca Musser
Rebecca Musser (Rebecca Wall), former FLDS member and 19th wife of Rulon Jeffs, testified over 20 times against Warren Jeffs, aided the YFZ Ranch evidence work, and wrote The Witness Wore Red (2013).
Rebecca Walker
Rebecca Walker (born 1969), American writer and activist, daughter of Alice Walker; coined "third wave" feminism in her 1992 Ms. article "Becoming the Third Wave" and co-founded the Third Wave Fund; author of Black, White, and Jewish.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe
Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe covers marriage, registered partnerships, civil unions, and cohabitation statuses. Denmark pioneered registered partnerships in 1989; the Netherlands led on marriage in 2001; the ECtHR (Fedotova) and CJEU (Coman, C-713/23) drive cross-border recognition.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Italy
Recognition of same-sex unions in Italy: civil unions (unioni civili) under the Cirinnà law 76/2016, in force 5 June 2016, following Constitutional Court judgment 138/2010 and ECtHR Oliari v. Italy (2015); no same-sex marriage, adoption excluded, 2,936 unions in 2024.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Liechtenstein
Recognition of same-sex unions in Liechtenstein: registered partnerships since September 1, 2011 (68.8% referendum approval) and same-sex marriage under the amended Marriage Act from January 1, 2025, making Liechtenstein the last German-speaking country with marriage for all.
Recognition of same-sex unions in the Czech Republic
Same-sex unions in the Czech Republic (registrované partnerství, now partnerství) are recognized via registered partnership from 2006 and a Civil Code partnership from 1 January 2025, largely equal to marriage but without same-sex marriage itself.
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.
Reem Alsalem
Reem Alsalem, Jordanian UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls since 1 August 2021; former UNHCR official; known for climate-crisis, sex-based-violence and mothers reports and gender-identity controversies.
Refractory period (sex)
Sexual refractory period (post-ejaculation refractory time, PERT): the phase after male orgasm and ejaculation when erection and further ejaculation are inhibited, lasting minutes to days and lengthening with age; absent or controversial in females, with serotonin-related mechanisms proposed.
Regina Louise
Regina Louise, American author and foster care advocate, memoirist of Somebody's Someone (2003) and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe (2018), adopted at 41 by the counselor once barred from adopting her, subject of the 2019 Lifetime film I Am Somebody's Child.
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.