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George Soros HonFBA (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist. As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune.
A Black Lives Matter die-in over rail tracks, protesting alleged police brutality in Saint Paul, Minnesota (September 20, 2015) Black Lives Matter ( BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement [1] [2] that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people and to promote anti-racism.
As of May 2020, Soros had a net worth of $8.3 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion have already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune, thus making him the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth among billionaires according to Forbes.
Biography. Herbert Black joined his father's scrap metal recycling business, American Iron and Metal Company Inc. ("AIM") in 1961, at the age of 17. Over the past 55+ years, he has played a key role in transforming AIM from a local scrap operation to one of the largest and most successful recycling enterprises in North America.
Patrisse Marie Khan-Cullors Brignac [1] ( née Cullors-Brignac; born June 20, 1983) is an American activist, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, artist and writer. Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 and has written and spoken widely about the movement. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison ...
European Movement UK [5] Scientists for EU [5] [6] Media Matters for America [7] Center for Public Integrity [8] Priorities USA Action [9] American Bridge 21st Century [9] America Votes [9] [10] Millennium Promise [11] Tides Center and Foundation [12]
Alicia Garza's Facebook post on July 13, 2013, responsible for sparking the Black Lives Matter movement With Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, Garza birthed the Black Lives Matter hashtag. She is credited with inspiring the slogan when, after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, she posted on Facebook: "I continue to be surprised at how little ...
Linda Sarsour (born 1980) [1] is an American political activist. She was co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, the 2017 Day Without a Woman, and the 2019 Women's March. She is also a former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. She and her Women's March co-chairs were profiled in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential ...