It was just like the block’s famous intro: “everybody would crowd onto the couch like they’d crowd into a car, the TV would come on, and it would be time for SNICK.” ...

Saturday Night Nickelodeon — or SNICK, as expert Chris Plante reminds us — was a unique introduction to the world of late-night TV for us youths. Maybe you’re an old person like Plante and ...

When Carmichael read of the 1960 sit-ins that created Snick, he dismissed them: “Niggers are just like monkeys —one do, all do. I was distressed.