On August 15, 197o in The Bronx, New York, NY, USA, the cropped photograph of Huey P. Newton in a rattan chair on a blue background accompanied by the text “Welcome Back Huey” featured the cover of Vol 2, nr 9 of ‘Palante, Latin revolutionary News Service’
On the Young Lords “The Young Lords wore purple berets, asserted their right to armed self-defense, and developed a thirteen-point platform and program modeled after the Black Panthers’ program. The Young Lords were different from other domestic “Third World” organizations in that Puerto Rico was (and is still) a territory of the United States, subject to U.S. rule without full political representation.” (Bloom 2016, 291)
“On August 5, 1970, [Huey P.]Newton was released from prison” […] “The release was a hard-won victory, and ten thousand people gathered outside the Alameda County jail to celebrate.” (Bloom 2016, 353)
“The Bronx Museum of the Arts organized a multi-venue artistic and cultural survey of The Young Lords Organization—a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth in the 1960s that demanded reform in health care, education, housing, employment, and policing. Exhibitions of art and archival materials at three cultural institutions in New York City explored how the Young Lords’ activities, community-focused initiatives, and their affirmation of Puerto Rican identity inspired artists from the 1960s to the present day, and had a major impact on the City and the social history of the United States.” (http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york)
