Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor in Chief of Current Affairs

Magazine. I am joined today by Professor Johanna Fernandez. She is a historian of social movements

at the City University of New York and the author of The Young Lords, A Radical

History, Available from UNC Press.

Professor Fernandez, thank you so much for joining us on Current Affairs.

And thank you so much for reading the book and for being willing to tackle this subject

matter, which dominated the better part of my life it feels.

Yes.

And I left my little beating heart in it.

That's evident when what opens the book.

It is the sort of book that could only have been the product of many, many years of deep research and reporting

in the archives through interviews. It is a rich history. Yay! Yes. The subject matter is deserving of

the kind of care that I think I gave it.

Yeah.

So the subject of the book is The Young Lords.

You say in the book that the Young Lords are of interest not only because it's just a compelling

story of a 1960s revolutionary social movement,

but you say that today's organizers can take a great deal.

You say the young lords offer a wealth of practical lessons for those of us today.

I just want to quote you here, you say they're

intrepid organizing campaigns, literature, bold political analysis, and media savvy,

reclaimed the dignity of New York's hardest working and most exploited workers and

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