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THE COMMUNITY ON OUR HISTORY AND HERITAGE "THE 60'S"!

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"THE 60'S"!! JUST THE SOUND OF IT EVOKES IMAGES FOR US OF PROTESTS, INJUSTICE, CHANGE, REVOLTS, BLACK POWER AND GROWING AS A PEOPLE.THE SIXTIES (AND VERY EARLY SEVENTIES) PUT OUR STAMP ON THIS COUNTRY AND ABROAD THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE FREE "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY" IT COMPLETELY  CHANGED THE TONE AND COMPLEXION OF OUR STRUGGLE, ESPECIALLY COMING OUT OF THE ERA OF JIM CROW. THE SIXTIES WERE TO US, MALCOLM AND MARTIN, REVOLT, ARETHA, BLACK NATIONALIST MOVEMENT, HARLEM AND NEWARK, SOUL, STOKELY CARMICHAEL, BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL, BALDWIN, BLACK STUDENT UNIONS, BLACK JESUS, PATRICE LUMUMBA, SIT-INS, MUHAMMAD ALI, AFROS, THE MOTOWN SOUND,  WATTS, JOMO KENYATTA, FRED HAMPTON, AMILCAR CABRAL, NINA SIMONE, ELIJAH,  KWANZAA, ROSA PARKS, THE PANTHERS, H. RAPP BROWN, SELMA, ANGELA DAVIS AND UMOJA! IT WAS ONE OF THE DEFINING MOMENTS IN OUR STRUGGLE THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM AS WE CAN LEARN FROM ALL OF OUR HISTORY. JOIN YOUR HOST, GREGORY TAYLOR, AS WE REMEMBER, DISCUSS AND TAKE WHAT WE CAN FROM, "THE SIXTIES"!!   DEFINITELY NOT ONE TO BE MISSED!!!

 

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