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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.