In front of a wall filled with agitprop posters of Malcolm X, Mao Zedong, and Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebrón, doctors stuck tiny needles into the ears of a woman going through heroin withdrawal. It was 1971 and they were demonstrating a new acupuncture treatment...
On July 14, 1970, members of the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx — known locally as “the Butcher Shop.” A group of activists, many of them in their late teens and early 20s, barricaded themselves inside the facility, demanding safer and...
Jonathan Van Ness takes us through 40 years of HIV/AIDS by hearing from the people who have survived the global pandemic, what it’s like living with HIV & how it’s stigmatized now....
The story of a radical movement that sought to end heroin addiction in communities of color with acupuncture, led by Dr. Mutulu Shakur, the step father of Tupac. Check out shortlist.vice.com for more. "The producers of Dope is Death would like to acknowledge an error...
The story of a radical movement that sought to end heroin addiction in communities of color with acupuncture, led by Dr. Mutulu Shakur, the step father of Tupac. ...