1960s | 1960s
May.12.2013
My personal essay "The Trip" will be published in the anthology The Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s and 70s. Here's a blog about "The Trip": http://www.timestheywereachanging.com/blog/
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Apr.14.2013
If you are between the ages of 18 to 30, you might have been a part of this. Would you have written about it then? What would you write about it now?
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Nov.29.2012
In September we talked about Boomers buying and selling their youth. Let’s take it a step further … what’s in your closet, garage or attic that you can reminisce over for a few minutes … and then let it go?
I ask because I’ve had to do that recently. Let’s face it – times are tough and some of us...
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Nov.08.2012
I met a guy in the pub this evening who was a spy - actually a double agent - in the 60s. He was a diplomat recruited by the Russians at the British Embassy in Moscow, who spied on the communists instead of us: odd choice at the time of Ward, Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler, Blunt, Burgess...
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Jul.26.2012
I took yet another YouTube expedition yesterday and I found a childhood friend, deep in the Malay jungle. Bunga! He's in a video of the Pre-War Orang Asli or aboriginals of the Malay Peninsula.
You can see the video here. Malay Aboriginals
It...
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Feb.15.2012
After opening in U.S. theatres September 9, 2011, and closing November 6, 2011, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 managed a total domestic gross of only $268,813 before making its debut on Public Broadcast Stations (PBS) over the February 10-12, 2012, Black History Month weekend.
Although...
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Feb.03.2012
"Goin' up to Cripple Creek, goin' on a run
Goin' up to Cripple Creek to have a little fun."
--traditional folk song
The old mountain at 9,500 feet is a remnant of it's primordial splendor. It perseveres. Now on Man's clock it flaunts its rocky crest at the top of the sky. At dawn...
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Dec.16.2011
Cover of Harry Belafonte's autobiography, My Song.
Human and civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X (Malik El-Shabazz) have become so indelibly symbolic of 1960s African America that students of the era sometimes forget that not all of the important leaders from the...
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Dec.06.2011
(Originally posted on the Readers Forum at the Contra Costa (Calif.) Times online.)
In fall 1964, as a second-year graduate student at UC Berkeley, I was part of the Free Speech Movement, a semesterlong struggle with administrators that was triggered by the regents' unilateral decision to...
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Oct.27.2011
The year was 1968, the place, Berkeley, Telegraph Avenue. The activists in Berkeley, including me, had petitioned the city of Berkeley to allow the closing of Telegraph Avenue between Bancroft and Dwight Way, an area of about five or six blocks.
I was fifty years old, and my son was eleven...
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