Black Panthers & Socialism

Dr. Mutulu Shakur, New Afrikan revolutionary, acupuncturist, and political theorist, passed on July 7th, 2023. After 37 years incarcerated as a political prisoner, Dr. Shakur spent just seven months free after his compassionate release in December of 2022 before he transitioned. He would have celeb

Many are familiar with the practice of acupuncture and its utilization in addiction treatment. What you may not know is that acupuncture was introduced into

The opioid crisis is a hot topic this year, and a recent article in The Atlantic magazine mentions Dr. Mutulu Shakur as one of the figures who brought acupuncture treatment into the mainstream part…

An introduction to Dr. Mutulu Shakur and the development of an acupuncture detox unit in the South Bronx in the 1970s.

When Black and brown activists created Lincoln Detox, they also helped spread Eastern medicine.

Distinguishing Charity and Social Work from Revolutionary Strategy by Kenny Lake (December 2020) Click here for a printable PDF of this article. In the 1990s, aside from militant protests and a wil…

In his condemnation of the U.S. war on the people of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance was not a pacifist one. King was not necessarily anti-war so

King, who championed economic as well as racial justice, called labor unions “the first anti-poverty program,” a Western Illinois University professor writes.