With Black Health & Wellness the theme of this year’s US & Canadian Black History Month, a series of images documenting the Spurgeon Jake Winters Free People's Medical Center established by the Black Panther Party in Chicago. ⁠ Named after a 19-year-old member of the Illinois chapter who had been shot and killed by the police – Winters’ story was recently reimagined in the film Judas and the Black Messiah – the clinic provided free healthcare and advocated for the city’s Black community. Drumming up support for the Black Panther cause, the clinic addressed discrimination amongst medical services and professionals, as well as the inequity of access to paid treatments.⁠ Based in a remodelled storefront at 3850 West 16th Street, in 1972 it was reported that the clinic saw 1400 patients at least once over a period of 14 months, assisting 75 patients alone across a sample week. ⁠ It is believed to have closed later that decade.⁠ For more from gettyarchive this Black History Month, follow ou...