Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis

male, deceased (2005)
Ossie Davis (December 18 1917 - February 4 2005) was an American film actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist.
Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti

male, deceased (1997)
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, October 15 1938 - August 2 1997), or simply Fela, was a Nigerian...
Jonathan Rauch

Jonathan Rauch

male, 49 years old
Jonathan Rauch is a gay, Jewish, author, journalist and activist, born 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona. After graduating from Yale University, Rauch...
George Tiller

George Tiller

male
George Tiller (b. 1941) is a physician in Wichita, Kansas in the United States. He is the medical director of an abortion clinic in Wichita,...
Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy

female, 73 years old (Detroit, Michigan, United States)
Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply...
Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

male, deceased (2006)
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet,...
Ben Heine

Ben Heine

male
Ben Heine is a Belgian political cartoonist, caricaturist and painter born in June 12, 1983, in Abidjan, Ivory coast. He studied art and journalism...
Lucy Parsons

Lucy Parsons

female, deceased (1942)
Lucy Parsons (1853-March 7, 1942) was a radical American labor organizer, anarchist (and later, Communist) and is remembered as a powerful orator....
Paul Rogat Loeb

Paul Rogat Loeb

male
Paul Rogat Loeb (born in 1952) is an American social and political activist, who has strongly fought for issues including social justice,...

Frances Moore Lappé

female, 65 years old
Frances Moore Lappé is a noted social change and democracy activist, and the author of 15 books, including the three-million-copy bestseller, "...