Palante, Volume 2, Number 16: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A copy of Palante newspaper, volume 2, number 16 with an orange, black, and white illustration on the front cover. The illustration depicts a police officer with the head of a pig, standing behind three graves. The graves have headstones with names listed from left to right [ANNiBAL / DAViLA/R. LAVON/MOORE / JULiO / ROLDAN]. In front of the graves is an open fourth grave in the lower right corner. The headstone for the fourth grave features large question mark. In the background is an exterior wall with a window behind the proper right shoulder of the police man. A man is seen with an arm raised outside the barred window, yelling. In the upper right quadrant is a pair of doors. At the top of front is the masthead, outlined in black, black type reads: [PALANTE / 25 / cents / LATIN REVOLUTIONARY NEWS SERVICE / YOUNG LORDS PARTY]. The masthead features a silhouette of the logo of the Young Lords Party on the right side. The logo includes the text: [TENGO PUERTO RICO / EN MI / CORAZON / YLP].The bottom of the front is a rectangle listing the volume and number, featured article titles, and date. The paper consists of twenty-three pages in both English and Spanish.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: December 11, 1970
• Published by: Young Lords Party, American, founded 1969
• Subject of: Palante, 1970 - 1972
• Subject of: Julio Roldán, American, died 1970
• Subject of: Anibal Davila, 1925 - 1970
• Subject of: Raymond Lavon Moore, American, 1945 - 1970
• Type: newspapers
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 17 1/4 × 11 1/2 in. (43.8 × 29.2 cm)
• Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
• Cultural Place: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: Multilingual communication
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Prisons
• Topic: Resistance
• Object number: 2014.109.7.14
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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