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Part One: Up Against the Wall: New York City's Armed Love Movement

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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NBA Rookie Life With Ryan Hollins

The term affinity groups comes from Spanish anarchist who were part of the Spanish Civil War. The Lower East Side was a major haven for what gets called the hippies. Malcolm X said in his autobiography that the word was coined in Harlem in the 1940s by white people who tried to act blacker than black people did. And we're gonna talk one more thing they did before they stop being black mask.

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