Virtually every shop and factory in Chinatown was closed, with signs posted windows and on doors reading “Closed to Protest Police Brutality” to protest the beating of Peter Yew.
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Ben Linder, a volunteer U.S. engineer in Nicaragua, was killed by the U.S.-funded Contras.
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Earth First! activist Judi Bari’s car was blown up by a bomb in Oakland, California.
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NASA scientist James Hansen testified to Congress stating the greenhouse effect had been detected.
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Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior was bombed by two French agents and Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira was killed.
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Between April 5 and April 28, 1977, hundreds of disabled and handicapped activists organized, protested, and occupied government buildings around the country to pressure the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Joseph Califano, to enact Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and publish regulations to guide its enforcement.
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The United Nations proclaimed May 22 the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues.
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Student-led protests in South Africa that began in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools.
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In a personal essay about the longest-running, largest annual event to celebrate the legacy of Malcolm X, Charles Stephenson describes the celebration’s founding and impact of that day in history.
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The Philadelphia Police Department dropped a C-4 bomb on the home of the MOVE organization, killing eleven people (including five children) and wiping out half a city block.
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Striking down a Texas state law, the Supreme Court ruled that “all children, regardless of immigration status, have a constitutional right to a free public education from kindergarten to 12th grade.”
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April 30 marks the end of the U.S. war in Vietnam — the capture by Vietnamese forces of Saigon in 1975.
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Puerto Rican nationalists and their supporters occupied the Statue of Liberty, hanging the Puerto Rican flag from Lady Liberty’s crown and demanding the release of five U.S.-held Puerto Rican political prisoners.
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Book — Non-fiction. 2025. By Bench Ansfield. 368 pages.
Examines the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other U.S. cities in the 1970s — and its legacy today.
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Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt were killed in Washington, D.C. by a U.S.-backed Augusto Pinochet regime car bomb.
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The U.S. Justice Department announced that the prison population topped one million for the first time in U.S. history.
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Inmates at United States Penitentiary (USP) Marion staged a hunger strike on the U.S. bicentennial in protest of inhumane treatment by the prison administration.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is a commemoration that has been honored annually since 1999 to raise awareness of continued violence to the transgender community and the many lives cut short.
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Book — Historical fiction. Written and illustrated by Pablo Leon. 2025. 240 pages.
A graphic novel about Guatemalan immigrant youth who learn about the dictatorship in Guatemala through conversations with their mother.
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In the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, a white police officer shot and killed Eleanor Bumpurs, a 66-year-old Black disabled grandmother, in her own home.
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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) declared a strike.
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The CDC published a medical study about five gay men, plagued by a mysterious autoimmune disease (AIDS), in June 1981.
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Film. Directed by David France. Public Square Films. 2012. 109 minutes.
This documentary is about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease.
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Students and faculty joined in an ultimately successful anti-Apartheid campaign at Calvin College.
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ACT UP New York organized a national action to “Storm the NIH” demanding that the National Institutes of Health do more to support those suffering from HIV and AIDS.
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