CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

In this interview, Baruch College student Orlando Green discussed the afterlives of the Black power movement through various student of color formations that operated around the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!), Including SOUL, FIST, STORM, and the Student Power Movement. He talked about the rise of campus policing at CUNY in the 1990s and 2000s in relation to the crackdown on protest and the targeting of student organizers such as himself. He discussed the changing political climate in New York and beyond through an analysis of electoral politics, the left, and the changing demographics and administration of CUNY.