The story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 — a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.
Direction
Donovan lets elders speak without flattening their radicalism
Editing
Archival footage hits like a gut punch every time
Writing
Refuses easy redemption arcs — just messy, beautiful resistance
Director
Mia Donovan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lincoln Detox pioneered what we now call 'harm reduction' — decades before white institutions caught up. The state noticed.
The film's 2020 release couldn't predict Mutulu's 2022 cancer diagnosis and 2023 death in custody, making every frame now unbearably timely.
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