The fire around the ice. (rap singer Ice-T) Time; 6/22/1992; Donnelly, Sally B. “Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat,” wrote Robert Frost. Tracy Marrow’s poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life’s jugular. Since his 1987 debut album, Rhyme Pays, Marrow — who goes by his high school nickname of Ice-T […]
Life in the ‘hood. (truce between Los Angeles, California street gangs Crips and Bloods) Time; 6/15/1992; Monroe, Sylvester “It feels like heaven,” says Michael Broadnax, 26, of South Central Los Angeles. A former member of the Bloods, Broadnax did not dare venture into neighborhoods dominated by Crips until factions of the rival gangs forged their […]
Beat the devil. (Los Angeles, California riots) (Column) The Nation; 6/1/1992; Cockburn, Alexander Reason and Violence As Monster Kody, the well-known 27-year-old 8-Trey Crip, put it from a prison in San Bernardino after I had asked him how he would define politics, “The relations between people centered on the seizure and retention of state power.” […]