When the Young Lords and Black Panthers Occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx

How my father, the Panthers, and the Young Lords negotiated for the improved care that became the blueprint for the patient’s bill of rights

The below excerpt is taken from This Thug’s Life (Dafina, 2026), the first-ever insider account of the Shakur family, the iconic hip hop group T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E., and the life and death Tupac Shakur—written by Mopreme Shakur, the legendary rapper’s big brother and eldest son of Black liberation activist Mutulu Shakur. In ...
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When the Young Lords and Black Panthers Occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx

Attacks on Women’s Bodies Reveal the Logic of Genocide in Sudan

Sexual violence and the destruction of medical infrastructure are not separate catastrophes

On October 28, 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) overran the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher. Satellite images show what Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab identified as bodies scattered across the hospital grounds. Videos filmed by RSF fighters themselves show militia walking through ransacked wards, stepping over piles of dead ...
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Attacks on Women’s Bodies Reveal the Logic of Genocide in Sudan

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Epidosde 64: A conversation with Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger about why the campaign for reproductive justice is also a struggle for our collective future

Why Now? host Claire Potter interviews Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger about abortion in the United States today....

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