Alondra Nelson Discusses Body & Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination on French TV

Alondra Nelson discusses Body & Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination with the French program, La Clé des Langues.

Could the Black Panther Party Have Achieved Universal Healthcare?

from  MidweekPolitics:

 

Alondra Nelson, Columbia professor and author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, joins us to discuss the Black Panther Party's healthcare platform, and David wonders whether a history of violence prevented the Black Panther Party from being taken more seriously on healthcare.

Alondra Nelson: The Black Panther Party and Health Care Equality @ Vanderbilt University

from Vanderbilt University

Watch video of Alondra Nelson, associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, speaking Nov. 8.

Typically associated with the revolutionary rhetoric and militant action of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the Black Panther Party  did significant and lesser-known work pursuing equality in the health care system. Efforts included a network of free health clinics, a campaign to raise awareness about genetic disease and challenges to medical discrimination.

Nelson, the author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, discusses the legacy of this advocacy as well as the relevance today in the campaign for universal health care.

The talk was sponsored by the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.

'Left of Black' Marks the 45th Anniversary of the Founding of The Black Panther Party with Author and Professor Alondra Nelson

Left of Black Marks the 45^thAnniversary of the Founding of The Black Panther Party with Author and Professor Alondra Nelson

Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discriminationjoins host Mark Anthony Neal on the October 24^th episode of Left of Black. On the episode, Nelson reveals the historical relationship between the Black Panther Party and medicine.  Nelson reminds audiences of the real danger Civil Rights activists faced while marching and sitting-in, and how issues of healthcare were of practical concern given the threats of violence.  Nelson highlights the how the work of the Black Panther Party continues to inform community medicine movements.

Neal is also joined by Jonathan Gayles, professor of African American Studies at Georgia State University and writer, director, and producer of the film White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in American Comic Books. Gayles discusses reaction to his movie, which won best documentary feature at the 2010 Urban Media Makers Film Festival and remembers the impact of the late Dwayne McDuffie founder of Milestone Media. Neal and Gayles also discuss Black Entertainment Television’s ill-fated attempt to bring the animated series Black Panther to television.

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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on Duke's Ustream channel: ustream.tv/dukeuniversity. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive. 

Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.

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