Our Unfortunate Slice of US History

The Nov. 22, 2000, Florida Brooks Brothers Riot disrupting the mandatory Bush-Gore recount in a Miami-Dade County polling office (Photo by Colin Braley for Reuters).

While the culture navigated its way though the AIDS pandemic, union busting and environmental stress, punk rock and rap were giving the music some renewable juice. From the Punky Reggae Party that was Rock Against Racism in the UK and USA to the fall of Soviet totalitarianism in the rubble of the Berlin Wall, the 80s were pretty fun.