NORMAL, Ill., Sept. 23 -- Illinois State University issued details related to the following event:
Come join Latin American and Latino Studies in celebrating the 158th Anniversary of El Grito de Lares by learning about the Young Lord's Organization!
The Young Lord's emerged as a political organization in Chicago in 1968 from one of the city's earliest Puerto Rican barrios, confronting displacement, poverty, police violence, and the transformation of Lincoln Park around them. Their transformation from a street organization into a revolutionary movement grew from an effort to understand those conditions politically and to develop a practice of self-determination capable of changing them. They confronted universities and other institutions a...