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Byline: Ella Creamer More than 1,800 writers and publishers have signed an open letter in support of the pro-Palestine protesters who disrupted the ceremony of a prestigious Canadian literary award [...]

Byline: JOSH O'KANE; Staff Disruptions at two recent awards galas have pushed public division over the Israel-Hamas war into the arts world, a sector long considered at the forefront of [...]

Byline: MARIYA POSTELNYAK; Staff Golden Glove champion Spider Jones received the Harry Jerome lifetime achievement award from the Black Business and Professional Association on Saturday in honour of a career [...]

Byline: Josh Taylor Taryn Brumfitt, a body image activist who directed a documentary about women's body loathing and her path to accepting her own skin, has been named the 2023 [...]

The accolade is accompanied by 50,000 euros, about $49,000, in prize money, which will be distributed among members of Ukrainian civil society. The European Union has honored the Ukrainian people [...]

Vesey tried to organize an insurrection in 1822 to free enslaved people, but was caught and hanged. Now several prominent Charleston institutions are honoring the bicentenary. Denmark Vesey, a formerly [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- NEW YORK From an imprisoned Ukranian journalist to a high-school activist in Florida, PEN America paid tribute Monday night to democracy and free expression [...]

Byline: Staff USA TODAY NETWORK Alabama Meet the national honorees and read more on the project at womenoftheyear.usatoday.com. Michelle Browder Through art, she's found her voice and a way to [...]

Byline: Gary Miles Feb. 3Edward D. McBride, 70, of Wayne, the manager of external affairs at Peco, a longtime high-energy political insider, and a tireless, award-winning community activist, died Saturday, [...]

Byline: RAF CASERT, ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS -- Lead Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who narrowly survived a poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin, was awarded the European Union's [...]

Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who survived an assassination attempt only to be jailed, received the Sakharov Prize. MOSCOW -- Aleksei A. Navalny, who for a decade challenged [...]

Byline: Girlie Linao in Manila The news that journalist Maria Ressa has been awarded the Nobel peace prize has been greeted with joy by defenders of human rights in the [...]

This week, an alliance of more than 100 businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations are mobilizing for a nationwide campaign to expand youth access to the outdoors. Starting today, May 16, [...]

Byline: Candace Buckner When NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar watched the 2018 documentary 'Shut Up and Dribble,' even he was surprised at his own level of commitment to social justice causes. [...]

Byline: Nosheen Iqbal Daniel Kaluuya was just nine years old when he wrote a play put on by Hampstead Theatre. It was the story of two guys working in McDonald's, [...]

Byline: Fred Hiatt The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded three times to people imprisoned or under house arrest. On Friday, the Nobel committee should add a fourth: Liu Xia. [...]

Byline: Justin McCurry in Osaka Animal rights activists have claimed a significant victory in its battle to end Japan's dolphin slaughter after a court ruled that an aquarium in Taiji [...]

Byline: Edward Helmore Gay-rights activist and award-winning author Larry Kramer is 79 and in failing health, but that won't defuse the impact of his latest bombshell project: the first 800-page [...]

Toronto Star, editorial: 'Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi are worlds apart. à She is a renowned 17-year-old Muslim girl from Pakistan who has (championed girls') education and surviv(ed) a Taliban [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor WASHINGTON - Malala Yousafzai needs little introduction. The 17-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, education advocate and survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt is her country's most famous teenager and [...]

Byline: Haq Nawaz Khan MINGORA, Pakistan - No one expected the news from Oslo this time. Last year, supporters of Malala Yousafzai in her native Swat Valley defied possible backlash [...]

Byline: Griff Witte and Brian Murphy LONDON - A 17-year-old Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban gunshot to the head for her advocacy of female education became Friday the youngest [...]

Byline: Kelly Ardis Sept. 01--Brown was set to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Bakersfield chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Sunday night, but [...]

Byline: Michaelle Bond June 30--Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban for championing girls' education, has been awarded the National Constitution Center's 2014 Liberty Medal. 'It's [...]