The Young Lords’ Public Health Revolution: Fifty years ago, the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx and won concrete advances in services and patients’ rights. Their legacy of radical health activism illuminates the inhumanity of for-profit medicine and the urgency of winning free healthcare for all.

Johanna Fernandez

The Young Lords’ Public Health Revolution: Fifty years ago, the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx and won concrete advances in services and patients’ rights. Their legacy of radical health activism illuminates the inhumanity of for-profit medicine and the urgency of winning free healthcare for all.

2020

Johanna Fernandez

A white refrigerated trailer truck parked outside of New York City’s Elmhurst Hospital in late March 2020. The impromptu, mobile morgue held the fast-multiplying bodies of those dying of Covid-19 i...

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