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Simone Biles Discusses Her Book, “Courage to Soar” | BUILD Series

By Simone Biles — 2016

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Join Olympic champion Simone Biles as she discusses “Courage to Soar,” co-written with journalist Michelle Burford, that chronicles Biles’ inspirational path to success. Biles is the most decorated U.S. women’s gymnast ever with 19 World/Olympic medals. See more...

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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone.

Michelle Bowdler

100 Years Later, These Activists Continue Their Ancestors’ Work

As Americans mark a century since the suffragists’ struggle, their descendants reflect here on the movement’s legacy among Americans of all races, faiths and genders battling for what the suffragists — quoting the president at the time — described as “liberty: the fundamental demand of the...

Elizabeth Williamson

Gay War Veteran Speaks Out for Equal Rights in Ukraine’s Military

Viktor Pylypenko has become a role model for dozens of LGBT+ Ukrainian war veterans and their supporters since he organised their participation in Kyiv’s largest ever gay pride march.

Margaryta Chornokondratenko

Models Chella Man and Aaron Philip Demand Better Representation for Disabled Communities

Models and best friends Chella Man and Aaron Philip are challenging fashion ideals. The two discuss growing up feeling excluded and invisible and detail the bravery it takes to be the change you want to see.

Indentured: The Battle to End the Exploitation of College Athletes

“How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?” In the four years since Joe Nocera...

Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss

‘We Have to Be Better’: Megan Rapinoe and the Year of Victory and Advocacy

With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.

Naomi Osaka: “I Hope It’s an Inspiration to a Young Girl with Big Dreams to Know that Anything Is Possible”

The IOC talks with tennis star Naomi Osaka on the importance of sport and strong female role models in the fight for gender equality.

Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports

When Cyd Zeigler started writing about LGBT sports issues in 1999, no one wanted to talk about them. Today, this is a central conversation in American society that reverberates throughout the sports world and beyond.

‘Their Mental Health Takes a Hit Every Time’: Measuring the Impact on Athlete Activists

People who don’t feel the effects of racial injustice or discrimination in their daily lives sometimes struggle to understand the impact. But the harm can be severe.

Allison Torres Burtka

Efforts by Women of Faith to Achieve Gender Equality

Here are five ways in which women of faith are fighting for gender equality at work and in broader society—empowering young women as feminist and womanist theologians, faith community leaders, social justice advocates, and elected officials.

Rachel Koehler, Gwen Calais-Haase

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