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This actor revived the Batman franchise in 1989, portraying both Batman and his alter ego, Bruce Wayne.
Who is Michael Keaton?
The spread of this European disease devastated Indigenous populations in the Americas.
What is Smallpox?
This annual event commemorates the Stonewall uprising and is now celebrated worldwide.
What is Pride month?
This American boxer advocated for racial justice and was greatly influenced by his first-hand experience of racism and white supremacy in Louisville, Kentucky. He challenged the idea that success and championships were inaccessible for POC, earning the nickname "the Greatest."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
What is Maine?
What is "28 Days Later"?
Despite independence from Spain, many Latin American nations continued patterns of inequality rooted in colonial land ownership, labor systems and racial hierarchy. This concept describes that persistance.
What is Neocolonialism?
This ancient Greek poet from the island of Lesbos inspired the modern terms "lesbian" and "sapphic."
Who is Sappho?
This song, originally performed by Dolly Parton, became Whitney Houston's greatest-selling hit, outperforming Dolly herself on the charts.
What is "I Will Always Love You"?
Writing in response to the French Revolution, this Anglo-Irish writer is credited as the founder of conservatism as a cultural and political philosophy.
Who is Edmund Burke?
This Scotsman was the original actor to play the super spy in the James Bond film series.
Who is Sean Connery?
This 19th-century leader is known as "El Libertador" for leading independence movements across northern South America.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
Gay rights activists reclaimed this symbol after its use by the Nazis to identify homosexual prisoners during World War II.
What is the pink triangle?
This man was the leader of the Haitian Revolution and became known as the "Black Napoleon".
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This U.S. president also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is William Taft?
What is "The Matrix"?
What are Cuadillos?
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from this influential diagnostic manual.
What is the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)?
This man was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 1895.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This book, written in 1651, argued for absolute sovereignty to prevent societal chaos. It uses a biblical sea monster as a metaphor to symbolize a powerful state that secures peace via a social contract, famously describing life without it as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
What is "Leviathan"?
He directed the 1930 film "All Quiet on the Western Front," an anti-war classic later reimagined by Edward Berger in 2022.
Who is Lewis Milestone?
This Catholic priest argued that the Spanish conquest brutalized Indigenous peoples and called for legal reforms.
Who is Batrolomé de las Casas?
This early gay rights organization, founded in 1950, took its name from a medieval French secret society.
What is the Mattachine Society?
This Civil Rights leader founded the "Freedom Rides" to challenge segregated bus terminals in the South.
Who is James Farmer?
She was the first woman in Congress and is best remembered for her negative votes concerning American entry into both World Wars.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?