WYoshifu Arita is a Japanese writer, journalist and politician from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. He currently serves as a member of the House of Councillors, and was elected from the National Representation list in 2010. Before he was elected, he was a regular commentator of Nippon Television's The Wide.
WMay Ayim is the pen name of May Opitz ; she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German student and Ghanaian medical student, she was adopted by a white German family when young. After reconnecting with her father and his family in Ghana, in 1992 she took his surname for a pen name.
WJosephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant.
WGuillem Ballaz i Bogunyà, is a Catalan musician who has focused his work on Catalan traditional music. First through groups like Sol i Serena, and later under his name in a more personal project. He has also made an important task studying and revitalizing the Catalan square tambourine "pandero quadrat" and their tunes and Catalan folk violin.
WMari Boine is a Norwegian Sámi singer. She combined traditional Sámi joik singing with rock. In 2008, she became a professor of musicology at Nesna University College.
WAparecida Sueli Carneiro Jacoel, best known as Sueli Carneiro is an Afro-Brazilian philosopher, writer and anti-racism activist. Carneiro is the founder and current director of Geledés - Black Women's Institute and a leading author on black feminism in Brazil.
WChin Peng, (1924–2013) born Ong Boon Hua was a Malayan communist politician, anti-fascist activist and long-time leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA).
WMamadou Diouf is a Polish musician and writer of Senegalese descent.
WRhina Polonia Espaillat is a bilingual Dominican-American poet and translator who is affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry. She has published eleven collections of poetry. She is known for writing poetry that captures the beauty of daily routine, as well as poems which ironically and humorously retell stories from both the Christian Bible and Classical mythology.
WElma Francois was an Africentric political activist who, on 14 October 1987, was declared as a "national heroine of Trinidad and Tobago". She had been described as one of the "vociferous Africentric activists" in the history of Trinidad and Tobago and in the Caribbean region. She was known for her pro-trade union, anti-war and anti-colonial work.
WHubert Henry Harrison was a West Indian-American writer, orator, educator, critic, race and class conscious political activist, and radical internationalist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by activist A. Philip Randolph as "the father of Harlem radicalism" and by the historian Joel Augustus Rogers as "the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time." John G. Jackson of American Atheists described him as "The Black Socrates".
WAlan Hirsch is an Australian author and thought leader in the missional church movement.
WThomas Oliver Newnham was a New Zealand political activist and educationalist. He was involved in several left wing causes: attacking institutional racism in New Zealand, and opposing the 1981 Springbok Tour and apartheid in general.
WGabino Palomares Gómez is a Mexican singer-songwriter and a social and political activist. He is one of the main exponents of the Nueva Canción movement in Latin America, and one of the founders of the Canto Nuevo movement in Mexico, alongside Amparo Ochoa, Óscar Chávez, and the group Los Folkloristas. He is the author of "La maldición de Malinche", one of the most prominent songs of the movement, and of more than a hundred songs covering social, political, and love themes.
WDipak Kumar Ray was an Indian-born physician who worked in general practice in Wales. He is best known for promoting equal opportunities and campaigning against racism in the medical profession in the 1970s.
WDjamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos is a Brazilian Black feminist philosopher and journalist. She graduated in political philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo, where she also earned a master's degree on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler. Ribeiro is a collaborating editor of weekly magazine CartaCapital, as well as a columnist for CartaCapital and Folha de S.Paulo.
WGilberto Rincón Gallardo y Meltis was a Mexican politician, activist and former presidential candidate.
WWalter Anthony Rodney was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. He was assassinated in 1980.
WAndrés Useche is a Colombian American writer, film director, graphic artist, singer-songwriter and activist.
WChloé Simone Valdary is an American writer and entrepreneur whose company, Theory of Enchantment, teaches social and emotional learning in schools, as well as diversity and inclusion in companies and government agencies.
WBrigitte Vasallo is a Spanish writer and antiracist, feminist and LGBTI activist, specially known for her critique of gendered islamophobia, purplewashing and homonationalism, as well as for the defence of polyamory in affective relationships.
WClaudia Naomi Webbe is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Leicester East since 2019. She also served a councillor in the London Borough of Islington until her resignation in March 2021, having previously served as its cabinet member for energy, environment and transport. She was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 2016 to 2019. She describes herself as a feminist and a socialist.
WCornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness". A socialist, West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including Christianity, the Black church, Marxism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism. Among his most influential books are Race Matters (1994) and Democracy Matters (2004).