The article reviews the experience of the Kent State massacre of anti-war college students in 1970, which has enormous relevance for today amid the massive police crackdown on campus protests against the Gaza genocide.
The Department of Justice has reopened an investigation into the murder of Charles Oatman and the slayings of several Black men who were killed during the 1970 Augusta Riots that followed.
Shots in the Back: Exhuming the 1970 Augusta Riot tells the story of one of the first major Civil Rights era riots in the South. The Augusta, Georgia uprising and the events that sparked it are tragically similar to what's happened more recently in Minneapolis, Minn. and Ferguson, Mo.
Back in May 1970, few lenses were pointed at a riot in Augusta, Georgia. Us & Them host Trey Kay asks award-winning reporter Sea Stachura why so few people remember this turbulent Civil Rights protest.