"Takeover" Revisits the Young Lords in Action

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Thom Powers
Documentary of the Week | Dec 10, 2021

The half-hour documentary "Takeover" recounts how the radical Puerto Rican group the Young Lords took over a South Bronx hospital in 1970. Filmmaker Emma Francis-Snyder conducts new interviews with Young Lords members to reconstruct what happened through archival footage and recreations.

 

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