Women in the Young Lords: Film screening of Palante, Siempre Palante! and Conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Lazú

All are welcome to a screening of the award-winning documentary Palante, Siempre Palante! (1996, 48 mins) directed by Iris Morales. Told through interviews with former Young Lords members, archival footage, and music, the film surveys Puerto Rican history, the Young Lords Organization’s activities, philosophy, and its inspiring legacy, connecting the streets of Chicago to the barrios of New York City and other urban centers. Following the screening, guest curator of Tengo Lincoln Park en mi Corazón: Young Lords in Chicago, Dr. Jacqueline Lazú, will lead a conversation exploring the impact of the women of the Young Lords Organization and their legacy in developing inter-city dialogues that connect activism and memory across the country. 

Jacqueline Lazú is a Society of Vincent DePaul Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at DePaul University. Her research on the Puerto Rican diaspora and the Young Lords in Chicago has led to long-standing collaborations with original members of the organization and informs her public history work, including the exhibition Encendidas: Women of the Young Lords. She also served as a historical advisor and on-screen contributor for the WTTW documentary The Young Lords of Lincoln Park. She is the author of two forthcoming books: The Young Lords Speak: (Re)Constructing the Narrative of Revolution (Haymarket Books, 2025) and Stone Revolutionaries: The Origins of the Young Lords Movement (Duke University Press, 2026).

Iris Morales is an activist for Latinx civil rights, filmmaker, author, and lawyer based in New York.  Morales is the founding director and executive editor of Red Sugarcane Press dedicated to publishing works about the Puerto Rican and Latinx Diasporas in the Americas. Currently, she serves on the advisory board of the Instituto de Formación Política of Mijente, a political home for Latinx people who seek racial, economic, gender, and climate justice.

Palante, Siempre Palante! is distributed by Third World Newsreel, New York.

This program is supported by DePaul University’s Vincentian Endowment Fund through the Division of Mission and Ministry and the Center for Latino Research.