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Black Panthers
Outside of this, their goals were socialist in nature and sought to free black Americans from the oppression of American Capitalism. -
The Year Youth Culture Exploded
It was the era of sex, drugs and pop revolution, but also of anti-war protest and inner-city riots. The more the young pushed forward, the more the adults pushed back. -
Break Up Of The Beatles
The biggest band in the history of rock and pop music was split apart in 1970 when a ‘self-interview’ by Paul McCartney, released to promote his eponymous first solo album, was seized on by the press as proof that he was quitting the Beatles. The question-and-answer statement, in which he hinted that the band would not work together again, led to newspaper headlines like the Daily Mirror’s 'Paul Quits The Beatles', and drove a wedge between him and his fellow band members. -
New Right Movement
As the 1970s continued, some of these people helped shape a new political movement known as the “New Right.” This movement, rooted in the suburban Sun Belt, celebrated the free market and lamented the decline of “traditional” social values and roles. They fought against high taxes, environmental regulations, highway speed limits, national park policies in the West (the so-called “Sagebrush Rebellion”) and affirmative action and school desegregation plans. -
Life In The 80's
Sports-minded Americans could watch the ESPN network 24 hours a day. NICKELODEON catered to the children of the baby boomers with youth-centered daily programming, and to the boomers themselves by broadcasting reruns of classic sitcoms at night. Americans could catch up with the news at any time by watching CNN. -
The 1980's: Popular Culture
In some respects, the popular culture of the 1980s reflected the era’s political conservatism. For many people, the symbol of the decade was the “yuppie”: a baby boomer with a college education, a well-paying job and expensive taste. -
Sweatshop Protest
In the 1990s and the early twenty-first century, students at a number of major universities launched protests against the use of sweatshops by the manufacturers of college-logo clothing. On many campuses, students and hourly workers joined in "Living Wage" campaigns, seeking to raise wages above the federally mandated minimum. As the twenty-first century opened, political youth movements appeared to be growing again. -
1991: The Most Important Year In Pop-Music History
1991 marked the most significant revolution in the history of modern pop music. The rise of rap and hip-hop, they authors wrote, marked “the single most important event that has shaped the musical structural of the American charts." -
Smoking Rises In Teens In The 2000s
In the early 2000s, teens started to smoke a lot more and it was getting popular. Most of them did it because they thought it looked cool and most of their friends smoked so they would give a try too. -
School shooting in Indiana
Two people were injured when a gunman opened fire at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Indiana.
