Health Activism And the Legacy Of The Young Lords

WNYC News | Jul 14, 2020

Fifty years ago, on July 14, 1970, the Young Lords set out to occupy the Lincoln Medical Center in the South Bronx to call for change to the city's worst hospital. The Puerto Rican revolutionaries also saw the protest as a way to highlight the health discrepancies between white people and Black and Latino residents in New York City which still persists to this day. 

Johanna Fernández, a history professor at Baruch College and author of the new book The Young Lords: A Radical History,  spoke with WNYC's Jami Floyd. "The were evangelical about muckraking and stopping business-as-usual in order to get the city to address the problems before their community," she said.

Listen to the whole conversation above.

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