Both embraced the counterculture, so the friendship of basketball star Bill Walton and Worcester-raised activist Abbie Hoffman was fitting. In fact, Walton made his way to Worcester in April 1989 for ...

Americans have donned the stars and stripes for centuries – but it doesn’t mean they agree on what it represents.

It wasn’t Abbie Hoffman’s finest moment. But it was one of them. It was a critical moment in 1987 when he and the daughter of a president protested against the presence of the CIA and CIA recruitment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woodstock is remembered as three days of peace, love and music. But for every person who attended — and for every performer who ...

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen says activist Abbie Hoffman may have inspired the creation of his character Borat. "I wonder whether subconsciously, perhaps, when I was studying Abbie Hoffman in Cambridge ...

A new street vendor was hawking his wares on the sidewalks of New York last week. Abbie Hoffman was peddling “Steal This Book,” his latest literary effort, in front of Doubleday Books’ Fifth Avenue ...

Abbie Hoffman's account of the Diggers' guerrilla-theater performance at the New York Stock Exchange on 24 August 1967. Hoffman and some other future Yippies infiltrated the heart of American ...

Abbie Hoffman, born and raised in Worcester, gained notoriety in 1968 as a member of the Chicago Seven. Before his time as a member of the group that sought to upend the Democratic National Convention ...

Two statements, described as a "Yipanther Pact," from the Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and an assortment of prominent Yippies (Stewart Albert, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin). The statements, which ...