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The summer of 1969 was marked by three extraordinary cultural events: in June, the Stonewall Riots marked the beginning of the struggle for civil rights by lesbian and gay Americans. July, the Apollo moon landing awed Americans and provided the entire country with a dose of optimism. August, the Woodstock Music Festival, where a gathering of approximately 450,000 people, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, became a symbol of fellowship and faith of a generation. Woodstock, in full The Woodstock… Read more: EP. 88 WOODSTOCK

The Maghreb (/ˈmʌɡrəb/; Arabic: المغرب, romanized: al-Maghrib, lit. ’the west’), also known as the Arab Maghreb (Arabic: المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa,[2] is the western part of the Arab world. The region comprises western and central North Africa, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. The Maghreb also includes the disputed territory of Western Sahara (controlled mostly by Morocco and partly by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic). As of 2018, the region had a population of over 100 million people. The… Read more: CC #1 INSURGENCY IN MAGHREB

The first Intifada (1987-1991) The First Intifada (Arabic: الانتفاضة الأولى, romanized: al-Intifāḍa al-’Ūlā, lit. ’The First Uprising’), also known as the First Palestinian Intifada or the Stone Intifada, was a sustained series of protests, civil disobedience and riots carried out by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupiedPalestinian territories and Israel. In the first year in the Gaza Strip alone, 142 Palestinians were killed, while no Israelis died. 77 were shot dead, and 37 died from tear-gas inhalation. 17 died from beatings at the… Read more: Ep. 87 Israel/Hamas Conflict Pt. 4

Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on January 19, 1943, to Dorothy Bonita East (1913–1998), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Ward Joplin (1910–1987), an engineer at Texaco.  She had two younger siblings, Laura and Michael. The family attended First Christian Church of Port Arthur, a church belonging to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination. Her parents felt that Janis needed more attention than their other children. As a teenager, Joplin befriended… Read more: BSB #44 JANIS JOPLIN

The movement had its origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century and had its modern roots in the 1940s, although the movement made its largest legislative gains in the 1960s after years of direct actions and grassroots protests After the American Civil War and the subsequent abolition of slavery in the 1860s, the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution granted emancipation and constitutional rights of citizenship to all African Americans, most of whom had recently… Read more: Ep. 86 Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks’s great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers a part-Native American slave. As a child, she suffered from chronic tonsillitis and was often bedridden; the family could not afford to pay for an operation to address the condition. When her parents separated, she moved with her… Read more: BSB #43 Rosa Parks

It didn’t take me long to jump to the worst idea possible; suicide. I sat with this thought for far too long and if I’m being honest, I still sit with it from time. Suicide and I will sit down together for an afternoon every now and then and just catch up. By that I mean I’ll be under a blanket in a room plotting my death and wishing I hadn’t been born. Right after she left I fell… Read more: Looks Good To Me

So much of the life I am throwing away does not fit comfortably in a trash bag. The dog bowl. Christmas decorations. My life. None of them will fit, perfectly. I have to mash and mangle them to get them to submit. But then again hasn’t that been the trouble? Trying to fit a round peg into a square hole? It has been something I have been wrestling with for the last couple of weeks. Only yesterday did It… Read more: The Weirdest Part Of My Life

On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California and pronounced dead the following day. Kennedy, a United States senator and candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, won the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4.  He addressed his campaign supporters in the Ambassador Hotel’s Embassy Ballroom. After leaving the podium, and exiting through a kitchen hallway, he was mortally wounded by multiple shots fired… Read more: Ep. 85 RFK Assassination