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Alexis McGill Johnson
Alexis McGill Johnson (born 1972) is an American organizer and president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its Action Fund since 2020, after interim leadership from 2019; previously co-founded the Perception Institute.
Alexithymia
Alexithymia: subclinical difficulty identifying and describing one's own emotions, coined by Sifneos in the 1970s, measured by the TAS-20, present in about 10% of people and roughly half of autistic individuals.
Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) was an Austrian psychiatrist, founder of Individual Psychology, who broke with Freud in 1911; known for inferiority feelings, striving for superiority, social interest, and style of life.
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet (1857–1911), French psychologist, creator with Théodore Simon of the 1905 Binet–Simon Scale, the first practical intelligence test; mental age concept; Terman's 1916 Stanford–Binet introduced the IQ.
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner (Al Smith Dinner) is an annual white-tie New York charity gala founded in 1945 honoring the 1928 Catholic presidential nominee, famous for election-year presidential roast speeches and multimillion-dollar Catholic charity fundraising.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist and founder of structural functionalism, contrasting with Malinowski's functionalism; held chairs at Cape Town, Sydney, Chicago, and Oxford; wrote The Andaman Islanders.
Algerian emigration to France during the World Wars
Algerian emigration to France during the World Wars is the movement of Algerian Muslim workers and soldiers to metropolitan France between 1914 and 1945, beginning as mass migration in the First World War.
Algerian immigration to France
Algerian immigration to France is a migration begun in the late nineteenth century under colonial rule, today one of France's largest immigrant communities, with a diaspora of 2.5 to 3 million.
Algonquian peoples
Algonquian peoples: Indigenous North American peoples speaking Algonquian languages, a family of about thirty languages within the Algic stock, stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Great Plains, including the Algonquin, Cree, Ojibwe, Mi'kmaq, Powhatan, and Lenape nations.
Algonquin people
Algonquin people (Omàmiwininiwak, 'down river people'), an Anishinaabe Indigenous nation of the Ottawa River watershed straddling Quebec and Ontario; never signatory to a land-sharing treaty, with nine Quebec communities, the Anishnabemowin language, and a 36,000 km2 Ontario land claim.
Ali Eisami
Ali Eisami, also known as William Harding, was a Kanuri man from Borno enslaved around 1812 whose dictated life story became a canonical account of enslavement.
Ali Hewson
Ali Hewson (Alison Stewart), Irish businesswoman, Bono's wife since 1982; co-founded ethical fashion label Edun in 2005, took LVMH's 49% stake in 2009, and wound the loss-making brand down in 2018.
Alice Hathaway Roosevelt
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861-1884), first wife of Theodore Roosevelt and mother of Alice Lee Roosevelt; married 1880, died of Bright's disease two days after childbirth, the same day Roosevelt's mother died.
Alice Marsh
Alice Marsh, born Alice Glass Kirkpatrick, was an American socialite and political hostess in Washington, D.C., described in Lyndon B. Johnson biographies as his long-time mistress.
Alice Széchenyi
Alice Széchenyi (Széchenyi Alice, 1911–1974), Budapest-born Hungarian countess, daughter of László Széchenyi and American heiress Gladys Moore Vanderbilt; name also borne by Alice Széchényi (1871–1945), who married Count Tibor Teleki.
Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza (born 1981, Oakland) is an American civil rights organizer who co-founded Black Lives Matter after her July 2013 Facebook post following Zimmerman's acquittal; she later founded Black Futures Lab and co-founded Supermajority.
Alicia Roth Weigel
Alicia Roth Weigel, intersex activist, author of the 2023 memoir Inverse Cowgirl, Austin Texas Human Rights Commissioner, and subject of the documentary Every Body, advocates against non-consensual intersex surgeries.
Alien abduction
Alien abduction: reports of being taken by nonhuman entities into a craft and examined, first publicized by the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill case; explained scientifically via sleep paralysis, false memories, hypnosis, and cultural expectation.
Aliʻi
Aliʻi (Hawaiian chiefs) were the hereditary ruling class of traditional Hawaiʻi, holding authority through mana and genealogy, governing land divisions from island to ahupuaʻa until the kapu abolition of 1819.
Aliyah (עלייה)
Aliyah (עלייה, "ascent") is Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel and the State of Israel under the Law of Return. Waves from 1882 onward brought about 3.8 million immigrants; FSU olim are the largest group.
All Lives Matter
All Lives Matter (ALM) is a 2014 social media slogan that emerged as a reactionary response to Black Lives Matter. It affirms attention to all lives.
Alleged doubles of Vladimir Putin
Alleged body doubles of Vladimir Putin: unproven claims that lookalikes stand in for the Russian president, asserted by Ukrainian intelligence (up to three) and a 2023 Japanese AI study, denied by the Kremlin, and contradicted by Meduza's 99.6–99.9% facial-recognition results.
Alliance Defending Freedom
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), formerly Alliance Defense Fund, is a US conservative Christian legal advocacy group founded in 1994, active in religious liberty, abortion, and LGBTQ litigation, with over $100 million annual revenue and an SPLC hate-group designation it disputes.
Allison DuBois
Allison DuBois is an American self-described medium from Phoenix, Arizona, inspiration for NBC's Medium starring Patricia Arquette, author of six books, host of The Dead Life podcast, whose law-enforcement claims skeptics have found unsupported.
Almanzo Wilder
Almanzo James Wilder (1857–1949), New York-born homesteader, husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, subject of Farmer Boy; married Laura 1885 in De Smet, homesteaded Dakota Territory, later Rocky Ridge Farm, Mansfield, Missouri.
Almost Naked party
The Almost Naked party was a December 20, 2023 celebrity event organized by Anastasia Ivleeva at Moscow's Mutabor club with an "almost naked" dress code, whose photos sparked a pro-war conservative crackdown, jail terms, fines, apologies, and a rejected billion-ruble lawsuit.
Alok Dixit
Alok Dixit, Indian activist and former journalist, founded the Stop Acid Attacks campaign (2013) and Chhanv Foundation (2014), Noida-based, and opened the Sheroes Hangout survivor cafés in Agra and Lucknow.
Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין)
Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין), Israeli activist, co-founder and national co-director of the Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together; 2011 social protest leader, former Knesset adviser, TIME100 Next 2024 honoree.
Alparslan Kuytul
Alparslan Kuytul (born 1965, Adana) is the founder and leader of the Furkan Movement (Furkan Vakfı), founded 22 November 1994. A civil engineer and Al-Azhar Islamic law graduate, he is known for AK Parti criticism, two imprisonments, a 2020 acquittal, and the 2026 detentions.
Alpha and beta male
Alpha and beta male labels from animal dominance-hierarchy research, coined by Rudolf Schenkel in 1947 and popularized by David Mech's 1970 wolf book, later retracted; applied to human personality by the manosphere.