Fight the Power: All Power to Da People
by Mallory Culbert
The Black Panthers created the Free Breakfast Program to feed school-aged children, one of sixty survival programs to meet the needs of the black community.
The Black Panthers fought against medical discrimination by bringing e acupuncture to their communities for addiction treatment [1].
Notorious gangs the Bloods and the Crips were formed to keep Black communities safe from the police.
The Free love movement of the 1960s resisted government involvement in sexual matters & embraced sexual self-determination for women.
The Black Panthers' community health clinics educated and treated black health issues that were ignored by white medical research like sickle cell Anemia.
In 1970s Bronx, the Puerto Rican Young Lords and the Black Panthers protested to get the Lincoln Hospital to provide addiction services run by folks in recovery [2].
The "Black is Beautiful" cultural movement resisted the racist ideas that Black people's natural skin color & facial features were inherently ugly.
1960s counter-culture fought against us military expansion & against "the establishment."
Sources:
1. “How Racism Gave Rise to Acupuncture for Addiction Treatment.” The Atlantic. From https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/acupuncture-heroin-addiction/566393/
2. https://www.studioatao.org/post/understanding-respectability-politics
