Half a century after the federal government voided Jim Crow laws, the criminal justice system still discriminates against African Americans.
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Recent blackface scandals that involve college yearbooks have overshadowed how yearbooks also chronicled important turning points in the history of US higher education, a historian argues.
The Liverpool comic scored with the third-highest selling single of the 1960s.
Desperate to achieve fame by any means necessary, Manson was ahead of his time: Today, the delirious pursuit of fame has gone mainstream.
The murderous cult leader’s notoriety has not diminished over four decades in a US jail.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono visited Canada on a peace mission: They met with leaders and asked difficult questions, relevant today. How do we effectively protest against social injustices and war?
He was a true heart breaker.
Musicians were able to connect with confused, scared and angry Americans – including those who supported the war – in a way actors, broadcasters and writers could not.
Student protest has been in the political spotlight since Trump’s election. Todd Gitlin, former president of Students for a Democratic Society, shares his perspective on protest in the 60s and now.
Donald Trump will preside over a new American reality as it takes shape. How can we understand it?
The 20th century saw battle lines drawn between music-driven youth movements and the state like none before.
In this article from 2017, a look at the coordination of strategy between white and Black activists to fight systemic class oppression.
The V&A’s current exhibition, Revolution, highlights that all is not rosy from the vantage point of 2016.
The 1968 presidential election saw belligerent, race-baiting populism in full flower. Sound familiar?
Psychedelia is too often dismissed as a product of the decade and the drugs, but the phenomenon has a far richer history than that of the swinging 60s.
She might now seem rather light-entertainment, but as the only female act to make a success out of ‘Merseybeat’ and go on to an ITV career as a female powerhouse, she deserves more.
The first film to see The Beatles in technicolour is 50 years old.
With air travel no longer possessing the romantic allure it once did, the structure is slated to become a hotel.
The final season concludes in 1969. What happened in the advertising industry over the ensuing decades?
The Rolling Stones are currently nearing the end of their seventh (and quite possibly last) tour of Australia and – despite cancelling the Hanging Rock gig due to Mick Jagger’s throat infection – are still…
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Post-doctoral research associate in British Cinema History, University of York
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Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina
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Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Africana Studies and Art & Design, University of Delaware
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Professor of Music, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British and American History, Bath Spa University
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Boston University
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne