Leonard Pitts Jr.: 'What’s Going On' still feels urgent, still feels now
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
May 19, 2021
2 minutes
Fifty years ago.
Left-wing terrorists exploded a bomb at the U.S. Capitol.
An Army officer was convicted in the massacre of civilians at My Lai.
Vietnam chewed up another 2,414 American lives.
And across the country, needles were lowered for the first time to the grooved surface of a certain spinning vinyl disc, and there came the murmur of a party —
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