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The Lincoln Park neighborhood looks far different than it did in 1970 when Hila Frontany bought her house on Diversey and Sheffield.

To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.

Jackson announced his retirement on July 15, and Haynes's term officially began July 16.

Barry Healy reviews Johanna Fernández's inspiring new history of the 1960's New York Puerto Rican radicals, the Young Lords, who were audacious, charismatic and militant, as they challenged those in power to attend to people's suffering in East Harlem.

The movement did not perish with Harold Washington’s death in 1987. It endures through a rainbow of politicians and activists who are eager to claim his legacy.

<p>Johanna Fernandez's history of the Puerto Rican activist organization reconstructs the movement's roots and shows that an organization formed in 1969 still offers a useful diagnosis of an "urban crisis" rooted in experiences in housing, schools, hospitals, and jails. </p>

Review of Johanna Fernández’s book The Young Lords: A Radical History by Chris Wright / May 3rd, 2021 Johanna Fernández’s The Young Lords: A Radical History could hardly have been published at a more auspicious time. The fateful year 2020 saw not only the outbreak of a global pandemic but also, in the U.S., a rejuvenation of Black Lives Matter and renewed national attention to issues of racial and economic justice. The pandemic and its economic consequences have further skewed a lopside...

Judas and the Black Messiah is based on the true story of FBI informant William O’Neal and his role in the 1969 killing of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. It took years for the facts around Hampton’s killing to become public, thanks to a vigorous government effort to cover them up. While the movie, directed by Shaka King from a screenplay he wrote with Will Berson, stays relatively faithful to history, it does take some liberties with the historica...

Allies today could about learn from the coalition, created by the Black Panther Party.