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Gandhi had led India to independence through satyagraha, and in the dawn of that independence was fasting against the communal sla...

Evers, a war veteran and Mississippi first NAACP field secretary, organized boycotts and investigated killings, including the Emme...

Malcolm X, the most electrifying voice of Black nationalism, had left the Nation of Islam in March 1964, made the pilgrimage to Me...

King had come to Memphis to support the striking sanitation workers amid his Poor People Campaign. A single rifle shot from a room...

Cabral, an agronomist trained in Lisbon, founded the PAIGC and led the most successful guerrilla war against Portugal in Guinea-Bi...

First, journalist, historian, and author of books on Libya, the Mozambican revolution, and the mining economy, had been imprisoned...

Biko, the medical student who founded the South African Students Organization and built Black Consciousness as the philosophy of s...

Hani, the popular general secretary of the Communist Party and former MK commander, was the second most admired figure in the coun...

Politkovskaya had reported the second Chechen war from inside the wreckage of Grozny, exposed torture in the filtration camps, cat...

Rosa Luxemburg, born in Russian Poland, was a leading Marxist theorist and economist and a prominent opponent of World War I, whic...

Emiliano Zapata led the peasant army of the south during the Mexican Revolution, fighting successive governments for the return of...

Jamal Khashoggi was a veteran Saudi journalist and former adviser to members of the royal family who became a critic of the polici...

Daphne Caruana Galizia ran Running Commentary, a widely read blog that investigated corruption in Maltese politics and business, i...