400 Years Since 1619: 'What Made That Decade Special?': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Revisits the Enigmatic '80s With Adrian Loving

I was born in the mid-’70s, but I am distinctly a child of the ’80s. It is the era in which I came of age, alongside a generation raised largely on John Hughes and “Quiet Storm.” In fact, the oft-forgotten Generation X was in many ways foundational—and groundbreaking. In many ways, we are the bridge between the analog…