Keith, 46, has been addicted to crack cocaine for 12 years and has been living in a make-shift tent on the streets in the Hyde Park community of South Los Angeles. He has found a quiet spot next to the non-operational Burlington Northern/Sante Fe railroad tracks by Brynhurst & 71st Street. These tracks will soon [...]
Rap groups Cash Me Out (CMO) and First Family out of South Los Angeles perform at the Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill in Hollywood, CA. The main song, “I young and I’m Black and my hat real low” was performed. Posted: April 17, 2013 Artists: Buc Wild, K-toe (Kadiyah Movement), Chuc Crazy, Tay Tay, Related [...]
In 2008, Pedro Espinoza, 19, shot and killed Jamiel Shaw, 17, during a chance encounter on 5th Avenue where Shaw lived. Espinoza had saw Shaw walking on 23rd Street and noticed him to be a Blood gang member, a rival to the gang Espinoza was from, 18th Street. After an exchange of words, Espinoza shot [...]
Baby No Good is from the Fruit Town Brims, a street gang in South Los Angeles located west of the University of Southern California. He talks about his life in the gang, his family, how hard his mom work, and the absence of his father in his life. Post date: March 12, 2013 Interview Date: [...]
Afrika Bambaataa speaks on the Zulu Nation working with Easy E and Above the Law, gangs in Los Angeles and how New York gang members have a misconception of gang history, and on global environmental changes that are destroying the Earth. Int. Date: September 17, 2005 Location: KAOS Network, Leimert Park, Los Angeles Related stories: [...]
Posted: March 8, 2013 Interview Date: 2005 Location: KAOS Network, Leimert Park, Los Angeles Related stories: Afrika Bambaataa on street gang prevention, LA gangs in New York and the environment Afrika Bambaataa speaks on the… Afrika Bambaataa Named Visiting Scholar to Cornell U By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF… Grape Street Crips member says he is [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer November 9, 2012 | 2:09 a.m. Last Friday, Judge Ronald Rose upheld the jury’s sentence of death against Pedro “Darky” Espinoza who was convicted in the 2008 first degree murder of Jamiel Shaw. Many observers who had been watching this trial anticipated that this sentence was inevitable because of [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 17, 2012 | 6:45 p.m. Streetgangs.com is apolitical when it comes to presidential elections, but we are fascinated by the geography of elections and the spatial voting patterns that emerge. For example the Deep South will go for the Republican candidate while urban states such as California and [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer September 27, 2012 | 11:08 p.m. Eritrean rapper Sador “Sandman Negus” Fasehaye was killed in an alley on the 4300 block of South Crenshaw Boulevard on Thursday evening. Fasahaye, grew up in South Los Angeles but was born in Bulgaria from Eritrean parents and spent some time in the [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer September 21, 2012 | 8:01 p.m. During the 1980s, the California Department of Corrections allowed African-American gang members to wear their gang colors. Salinas Valley State Prison, also known as Soledad Prison, during the late 1980s was known as a Blood friendly prison allowing them to wear red. Many [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer September 14, 2012 | 1:40 a.m. According to Fox 11 News in Los Angeles the two bank robbers that were tossing money out the car on Wednesday afternoon in South LA were members from the Rollin’ 40s Crips, a predominately African-American street gang. The news cited an unnamed source [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer August 4, 2012 | 11:20 p.m. Tennis champion Serena Williams won the gold medal in the 2012 London Olympic games on Saturday, and she celebrated her victory with a dance known as the C-Walk or Crip Walk. This dance was created in the early 1970s by a Crip member [...]
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