08/22/2026
Our communities have always protected and supported one another. Whether it's sharing fruit from your trees with neighbors, connecting with others to access resources, or sharing skills with friends, we are building the world we want to see!
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On how communities have always kept one another safe! ⭐️🌱🌷
In the 1970s, at the height the drug epidemic in the South Bronx, community revolutionaries saw hospitals in the South Bronx were inadequate in serving its community.
The Young Lords, the Black Panther Party, IWK and other revolutionaries took over the hospital an established The People’s Drug Program. One of the team members, Mutulu Shakur, Tupac’s stepdad, a prominent member of the Republic of New Afrika and affiliated with the Black Panthers, saw acupuncture’s potential efficacy in treating substance use disorders.
For more information, incredible historians and filmmakers and https://www.ofpartandparcel.com/ has done extensive research and more information on this history ❤️
