Author to Speak About Black Panthers' Health Activism
Oakton Library will welcome author Alondra Nelson as a guest speaker Thursday for a talk on her latest book, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination. Body and Soul focuses on the the history of the Black Panther Party's health activism, which sought for freedom from medical discrimination. "Although the Party's activities were exhaustively documented in the mainstream and alternative media of the time, and continued to be accounted for in both memoirs and scholarship of subsequent years, little of this coverage treated health-related activities in any detail," Nelson writes in the preface of her book. "This oversight was likely because of preoccupation with other, more sensational matters." …
