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A volunteer grips bottles of Similac baby formula while preparing aid packages for people experiencing food insecurity at a give-away of food and baby formula held by the San Diego Original Black Panther Party for Community Empowerment, in San Diego, California, on May 25, 2022.

The Black Panthers' Community Health Legacy

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The party's legacy is instructive for contemporary debates about community health, mutual aid, and the democratization of care

More than 200 people gathered on Washington Square Park to rally in support Asian community, against hate crime and white nationalism.

The Virus Doesn't Discriminate, But Hate Crimes Tell a Different Story

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Addressing the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans

"Less a Leper Than I Have Been"

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Book of documentary poetry recalls Louisiana's Carville Hospital and early 20th century experience of leprosy in America

Attitudes toward leprosy are represented in this watercolor commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome around 1912 from Richard Cooper, a graphic artist known for his advertisements for the London Underground. Painting shows people scrambling to get away from a leper who strolls by, ringing a bell. In their haste, the crowd has left an infant on the roadside. CC-BY 4.0 from Wellcome Collection.