Remembering the Sixties Generation: A Son Explores His Mother's Life

Published: Jan. 4, 2023, 9 p.m.

b'We speak with The Indy\'s Nicholas Powers\' beautiful essay in our December-January print edition about his mother who passed away last year. She was a radical Nuyorican activist and a child of the \'60s generation.\\n\\n"She was born in 1948, in a Puerto Rican Brooklyn enclave and turned 20 in 1968, the peak of anti-Vietnam War protests, the hippie movement, the Young Lords and Black Panther rebellions. All the marches and slogans scooped my mother like a giant wave and lifted her out of the neighborhood, out of the family, and flung her into America," writes Powers.'