There were six of them, gunned down by the armed force of the state. I could be talking about the four students murdered at Kent State just ...

In an earlier May '70 post , I described how, the day after the Kent State massacre, NYU students seized a government-funded computer an...

Though the national student strike was three weeks old on May 21, 1970, it was not yet over. While this is a day late for the 40th anniversa...

40 years ago today, around 100,000 people marched down Broadway in Manhattan. With thousands of safety helmet-wearing members of various con...

When a unit of the Ohio National Guard wheeled and aimed at Kent State students on May 4, 1970, they fired an estimated 61-67 shots. Fast fo...

Two weeks after Nixon’s 1970 invasion of Cambodia triggered the first and only national student strike this country had ever seen, battles c...

There were six of them, gunned down by the armed force of the state. I could be talking about the four students murdered at Kent State jus...

Before following up on the strategy that college and university administrators were adopting to defuse the strike on many campuses, I want t...

As we recall the campus upsurge of May 1970, and the student movement and youth rebellion it gave rise to, it's equally important to rec...

I was there when the reactionary "white terror" kicked in. After the Kent State shootings, a New York City-wide demonstration had ...

The sign was hung out of an NYU dorm window. It read, simply THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL I want to use that sign as a starting point in talking a...

Handmade pins, created by Kendra Hicks (now Kendra Hicks Pacifico) during the late '80s, leading up to the 20th Anniversary of the sho...

May the Third, 1970 was a Sunday. The main thing about it was that we still really didn't quite have a handle on what was happening. Not...

In the previous installment of this growing May ’70 retrospective (criminy, can this be installment four already?) I wrote about being at th...

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We’re finally on our own… Forty years ago today, on Thursday, April 30, 1970, Richard Milhouse Nixon, the pre...