A couple of days ago, we talked about a Twitter exchange between actress Jessica Chastain and a fan about violent vs. non-violent protest that included Chastain taking personal offense at the fan's use of a Martin Luther King Jr. quote that talked about a specific type of white ally. Yesterday, she posted a video trying to clarify her intentions regarding anti-racism activism and her desire to be of better service.

A memorial for Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman tragically killed by a white supremacist who drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters, was held today in Charlottesville, VA. You can watch the entire service above. 

One librarian details what happened when she ran a game of Rise Up, in an attempt to teach them about movements and activism.

Jeopardy's love of puns undermined the very real issues at the heart of this term.

Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo pitch some wonderful Netflix show ideas to Netflix's "cuh-coh" (CCO), Ted Serandos.

After a well-deserved vacation (and a horrific election), President Obama spoke at the University of Chicago earlier today in his first speaking engagement since leaving office ( and first three months of the new regime), expressing his desire to prioritize encouraging youth to become engaged in their civic duties, and not mentioning the current President's name once.

Kerry Washington's statement sounds like someone rewrote the message Susan Sarandon's been repeating, but in a way that actually inspires, or at the very least, isn't offensively obtuse.

As you come down from the euphoria of this weekend's Women's March, you might be wondering how to keep the momentum going. In addition to veteran protesters and activists, the Women's March saw an unprecedented amount of first-timers shrugging off the "apolitical" label to get active, but they might not know where to start. Well, the organizers of the Women's March have a new campaign for you!

In a recent promotion for Al Gore's An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Paramount Pictures released a pretty scary video clip that reveals some of the the ten-year-old predictions from An Inconvenient Truth have already come true.

It’s understandable that people would turn to meaningful fictions in a time of mental, emotional, and spiritual need, but seeking comfort in these media has to stop somewhere.

Because of both my white privilege and Latina identity, I am within and without.

I didn’t set out trying to do good. I was just looking to save money.

I'm black, trans, fighting and tired of fake allies.

Like American women, Icelandic women comprise about half the population, and have achieved goals like paid parental leave for both sexes and higher education rates for girls. Their methods can work for us.

You know it's a bad morning when the genre fiction you love stops feeling like genre fiction and starts feeling like instructional manuals and self-help books.

Good luck to anyone who thinks they can tell Shonda Rhimes, Queen of ABC Thursdays, how to run her shows.

In a survey by Yahoo! News, 5,188 registered voters weighed in with their thoughts on how social media impacts our perspectives on politics and activism. Yahoo plans to delve deep into the results of the survey tomorrow at the Digital Democracy conference, but for the moment, here are the numbers: 74% of black respondents and 73% of Hispanic respondents said that they believe social media has "made political discussion more representative of what Americans really think."