“Protest is the heartbeat of a functioning democracy,” Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, told HuffPost.

Over the past year, a new series of protests called No Kings has swept the country, drawing millions of Americans out into the streets to protest and exercise their First Amendment rights. But what ...

American religious history is rife with protest movements and civil disobedience. Yet it is rare for political protests to happen inside a house of worship. That is part of what makes the new case ...

Climate protests are getting louder, more disruptive, and more controversial than ever. This video goes inside one of these movements to understand why activists are willing to risk arrest, backlash, ...

The first two record-breaking iterations of the international No Kings protests were both pegged to major news events. The first, held last July on the same day as Donald Trump’s underwhelming ...

Scholars say there are differing levels of success to weigh for movements and protests. Movements like the Black Lives Matter movement had impact, even if the George Floyd Policing Act was not made ...

Organizers want this to be the largest protest yet. But is hitting a number enough to deliver an effective political movement? By Jeremy W. Peters Jeremy Peters has covered influential American ...

(The Conversation) — Clergy demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis have turned to classic ‘freedom songs’ – the music associated with protests ever since the Civil Rights Movement. I have been ...

The power of the most important protest movement of our time, the Palestine Solidarity movement, lies in how it shaped a new political consciousness, especially among younger generations on campuses.

On Jan. 28, 2026, Bruce Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a hard-hitting protest against the immigration enforcement surge in the city, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex ...