Jackson State massacre — Bunk History

Student Carl Griffin shows Senators Walter Mondale and Birch Bayh the bullet holes left by the police shooting at Jackson State.

DOJ Shakeup May Put Civil Rights Probe of 1970 Jackson State, Mississippi, Killings At Risk

The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Act made way for investigations of racially motivated killings. The federal agency enforcing it is in disarray.

by Daja E. Henry via The Marshall Project on May 14, 2025

Kent State and the War That Never Ended

The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it?

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 4, 2020

African American workers march past a line of National Guards troops with bayonets fixed.

The National Guard’s History of Violent Labor Repression

Donald Trump recently deployed California’s National Guard to repress protests in LA. The National Guard has a long history of breaking up protests and strikes.

by Dana Frank via Jacobin on June 30, 2025

What's Going On? 50 Years Ago, The Answer Was Bigger Than Marvin Gaye

In 1971, a wave of Black artists released explosive new work that put its politics front and center.

by Mark Anthony Neal via NPR on May 21, 2021

Mark Rudd addresses students as president of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society on May 3, 1968.

Mark Rudd’s Lessons From SDS and the Weather Underground for Today’s Radicals

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.

by Mark Rudd, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on March 29, 2021

‘Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming’

The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.

by Robert Cohen, Michael Koncewicz via The Nation on May 4, 2020

New Memorial Day: Remembering Children Killed in School

It’s an exhaustive list. Far longer and deeper than you might suspect.

by Akim Reinhardt via 3 Quarks Daily on May 28, 2018

brought to you by

© Bunk History