[BEST OF] The Young Lords: Revolution in the Barrio
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Sep 10, 2020
In this episode, Breht sits down with historian Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History, to explore one of the most militant and visionary revolutionary groups of the 20th century. We trace the origins of the Young Lords from street gang to revolutionary cadre, their Marxist-Leninist politics, their grassroots organizing in poor Puerto Rican and Black neighborhoods, and their fierce fight against racism, colonialism, police violence, and capitalism itself. Dr. Fernández brings deep archival research and firsthand insight into how this organization fused theory and practice, turning the politics of the lumpen and working class into revolutionary power. This is a history not just to remember—but to learn from and build upon.
Check out Johanna's book "The Young Lords" HERE
Check out the Groundings podcast episode with Johanna, hosted by Devyn Springer HERE
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.2 | On today's wonderful episode, we have Johanna Fernandez on to talk about The Young |
| 0:14.2 | Lords. |
| 0:15.2 | Her new book, The Young Lords of Radical History, recently came out, and it is the work |
| 0:20.5 | of scholarship on the history of this |
| 0:22.9 | amazing organization. We cover so much ground. She's an amazing historian with the mind of a |
| 0:30.0 | historian that can constantly connect dots, pull out lessons from history for people organizing |
| 0:36.8 | and fighting against this system to this very day. |
| 0:39.9 | Just an amazing interview with an amazing guest. The links to this, to buy this book and |
| 0:44.9 | support her work will be in the show notes so you can easily go and find that. And if you like |
| 0:49.3 | what we do here at Rev Left, you can always join our Patreon and get access to bonus monthly |
| 0:54.0 | content. |
| 0:54.7 | I'll also link to that in the show notes as well. |
| 0:57.6 | So without further ado, let's get into this amazing conversation with the historian Johanna Fernandez |
| 1:02.6 | on her newest book, The Young Lords, A Radical History. |
| 1:06.1 | Enjoy. |
| 1:33.1 | Thank you. My name is Johanna Fernandez, and I'm Associate Professor of History at Baruch College of the City University of New York. |
| 1:35.3 | And I'm the author of this new book, The Young Lords, A Radical History, which has been long in coming, and it feels like I left a little |
| 1:48.4 | piece of my soul in it. |
| 1:50.2 | Well, I heard about you originally from the Groundings podcast, hosted by Devin Springer, a friend |
| 1:55.6 | and previous guest of the show. |
| 1:57.6 | And then I dove into the book itself, Absolutely loved the deep, rich history and the sort |
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