young lords

So once at a performance of Slave Ships South, somebody had asked me about the last line:
Ahora que estamos en el Norte, que traemos?
Now that we are in the North, what do we bring?

Part of an answer has to lie in the Young Lords Party, the Puerto Rican answer to the Black Panthers. (Some of these websites were already included in an earlier blog entry about the Last Poets mainly because Felipe Luciano was an early member of both organizations)

Young Lords Internet Resource, comprehensive collection of links for further research and documents for download

Latino/a Education Network Service, excellent history and explanation of the Young Lords with lots of links and access to a book and documentary about the Young Lords

¡Palante, Siempre Palante!, an extensive site about the Young Lords

Young Lords Party 13-Point Program and Platform (original version)

E-text has numerous articles related to the Young Lords

"The Young Lords and Early Chicago Puerto Rican Gangs" attempts to place the Young Lords in the context of ethnic Puerto Rican history and youth-gang history.