Venezuelan migrants moving into Chicago’s South Side have caught the attention of the city’s gangs, with some fearing an impending turf war between local gangs and their Venezuelan counterparts. "When ...
CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the criminal ...
In many prisons, gangs dominate internal life. Often, they operate under strict codes of conduct and foster a culture of fear. Despite constant pressure from the prison staff, gangs continue to thrive ...
David Simon, creator of the hit TV show The Wire, recently checked a troll who claimed his show was a "fantasy" that made Black gangs look "sophisticated." On Tuesday, Simon took time out of his day ...
As Ron Stallworth tells it, gang members thought Utah police were a joke. “One kid,” Stallworth recalled in an interview with Fox 13 News, “even said, ‘Coming to Utah and dealing with you guys is like ...
It is commonly assumed that hip-hop was born when street gangs in the Bronx, New York, channeled their energy from violence and crime to music and artistic expression. I critically interrogate this ...
Tired of having to scrap their way through the streets of West Compton in the early 1970s, A.C. Moses and his childhood friends banded together to defend against the other local gangs that were ...
Even in the cutthroat world of Los Angeles street gangs, the saying associated with one Crips faction stands out as cold-blooded: “You ain’t a Rollin’ 60 ‘til you kill a 60.” The Rollin’ 60s ...
Fox 11 reporter John Schwada has posted quotes from a video where Sheriff Lee Baca tells a mostly black audience in Compton that some Latino youths are indeed killing African Americans based solely on ...