Stefani Camille, www.Streetgangs.com staff writer October 29, 2013 Healthy nutrition is a crucial element in anyone’s life, be it in the black, Latino, or white community. Yet, mostly black neighborhoods are affected with having the least access to supermarkets in their community. The development in our children is sadly affected when their neighborhood stores are […]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER October 30, 2013 For adults, Halloween in the media usually means two things–dressing up in revealing clothing if female, and donning an ironic, bordering on offensive costume of minority groups. Blackface has resurfaced from poorly made-up Trayvon Martins among white teenagers, whose face paint stops just short of the […]
Paul T. Rosynsky (Oakland Tribune/Contra Costa Times) | October 30, 2013 OAKLAND — Massacre. Bloodbath. Insane. Those are the words, a prosecutor said Wednesday, that have been used to describe a shooting two years ago that left two men dead and five other revelers injured at a Jack London Square bar. It was a shooting […]
Christina Villacorte (Los Angeles Daily News) | October 29, 2013 Even though Los Angeles County’s own lockups are bursting at the seams, a divided Board of Supervisors backtracked Tuesday on an unprecedented plan to outsource the jailing of 500 inmates to distant Kern County. The board had voted 3-2 on Sept. 24 to approve a […]
By Samantha Tata | NBC 4 News Monday, Oct 28, 2013 | Updated 12:12 PM PDT Arrests have been made in the case of a Southern California father who was killed in front of his teenage son while the pair responded to an ad posted on Craigslist, the Los Angeles Police Department announced Monday. Two […]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER October 28, 2013 The shoot-first-ask-later practice is alive in Johannesburg, where a South African Hip Hop artist suffered bullet wounds at being mistaken for a kidnapper demanding ransom. Khulane Morule, aka Khuli Chana, stopped at a gas station en route to a performance in Pretoria, the same gas station […]
Kyle Rokes (Santa Barbara Independent) | October 28, 2013 PODER Santa Barbara held a forum at La Casa de la Raza last Thursday night called “How Will a Gang Injunction Affect Your Community?” Billed as a chance for community members to learn about the city’s proposed lawsuit against 30 alleged gang members, PODER reiterated its […]
By Shannon Barber October 27, 2013 4:36 pm We should expect tasteless displays around this time of year. Each year we see people’s inner bigot come out. However, you’d think folks would show just a little class or even empathy when it comes to a dead kid, right? Wrong. Well, at least we are in […]
By Cathy Rainone / NBC 4 News Oct 26, 2013 A Republican official in North Carolina has resigned his post just a day after “The Daily Show” aired an interview with him making racially charged remarks. Buncombe County, N.C. GOP precinct chairman Don Yelton referred to “lazy blacks that wants the government to give them […]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER October 25, 2013 In a culture rife with bravado, the Yeezus tour has united two figures who continually walk a fine line between arrogance and self-erasing irony. Kendrick Lamar opens for Kanye West, who made a bold statement in the staging of his classic “Jesus Walks” by holding a […]
Michelle Tuzee (KABC) | October 25, 2013 IMPERIAL, Calif. — Two years ago this month, a radical experiment in criminal justice began to unfold across the state of California. “Prison realignment” is shifting the responsibility for thousands of convicted criminals from the state to counties across California. There is plenty of controversy about realignment’s effect […]
April Charlton (Lompoc Record) | October 25, 2013 A former Lompoc gang member testified Thursday that a man on trial for murdering a rival gang member in June 2007 told him he gunned down Michael Jason Spradling in an alley and left the man to die. Lompoc resident Charles Alonzo Owens, 27, who is also […]