hhttp://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/young_lords.jpgFor five years, Johanna Fernández, history professor at Baruch College, worked to set up three separate art installations around New York City, one of which she curated. She worked without funding, to tell the story of the Young Lords, a 1960s, mostly Puerto Rican, street gang that morphed into a revolutionary action group inspired by the Black Panther Party. Late this July, "¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York," opened at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, and at Loisaida Inc. on the Lower East Side. . . . Go to all three exhibits to understand the effort and heart it took to keep the Palante newspaper going, to watch footage of Young Lords -- kids, mostly -- occupying an East Harlem church, setting up free food programs, free clinics, giving poetry readings, teaching history lessons. Read the Young Lords Party's "13 Point Program and Platform," that included self-determination for all Latinos, community control, the full equality of women.

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