Morabia Responds

AJPH’s October 2016 special section dedicated to the public health legacy of the Black Panther Party (BPP) has generated tremendous interest—mostly positive, as is the case for this letter. It has undoubtedly provided a new, fresh basis for a critical discussion of this key moment in the history of public health in this country. Much more can be said and hopefully will be said about the BPP, but in their letter, Dickinson-Copeland and Bent Weber stress what is in my view, a remarkable trait of this legacy: the movement originated in the Black community, but its goals were framed in a universal perspective comprising all those who could benefit from reducing health inequities. The claim to global access to care will seem even timelier if the millions of Americans who had finally found a way to care thanks to the Affordable Care Act were to become uninsured again.