IN CINEMA
MADE IN HARLEM: THE LAFARGUE CLINIC REMIXED
THE PEOPLE'S DETOX + LINCOLN HOSPITAL
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
Thursday, May 30th at 7PM
Co-Presented with Documentary Forum at CCNY and Third World Newsreel
THE PEOPLE'S DETOX
Jenna Bliss, 2018, 57 min.
In November 1970, heroin addicts, revolutionary health organizations, the Young Lords, and the Black Panther Party collectively organized to take over Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. Through political education and acupuncture, the clinic breached not only the hospital walls but the very apparatus of addiction and recovery.
Preceded by:
LINCOLN HOSPITAL (NEWSREEL #35)
Newsreel, 1970, 11 min.
When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run the clinic themselves.
Post-screening Q+A and discussion with Jenna Bliss, Dr. Barbara Zeller and Walter Bosque!
Made In Harlem: The Lafargue Clinic Remixed
Founded by Reverend Sheldon Hale Bishop (Pastor of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church that housed the clinic in Harlem) with co-founders Richard Wright (author of “Native Son” and former Harlem bureau chief for the Communist Party’s Daily Worker) and Fredric Wertham (German psychoanalyst who emigrated to the United States after the rise of the Nazi Party), The Lafargue Clinic was the first of its kind in Harlem: a pay-as-you-wish anti-racist mental health clinic, staffed largely by volunteers. Operating 1946-1958 out of the basement of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, The Lafargue Clinic pioneered a form of social medicine that linked patients' medical needs with the struggle for housing and economic justice. MADE IN HARLEM: THE LAFARGUE CLINIC REMIXED is a series of films, talks, and seminars on the legacy of this groundbreaking Harlem institution and its impact today on radical healthcare organizing, mutual aid, and collective wellbeing.
Curated by Kazembe Balagun.
This series is made possible with the generous support of the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC)
