“The epic of the Young Lords is one of the most exciting,important yet neglected stories in the black Revolt and Puerto Rican Liberation. When it came to a Black & Puerto Rican alliance and to organizing the grassroots, all the political experts” said it couldn’t be done. But, or when the stories of the triumphant Young Lords protests and programs reached the front pages from Chicago to recent York and Newark,the “experts” decided to bury that legacy of Black & Latino solidarity, the original Rainbow Coalition and the Nuyorican Renaissance. This conversation is the first of a two-allotment program in our Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series that begins to unpack important lessons from this unforgettable story with Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, and Denise Oliver-Velez,Felipe Luciano, Johanna Fernandez and Wilson Valentin.” – CBFS Co-Curator Komozi Woodard
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