Skipp Townsend was a member of the Rollin' 20s Avenue faction of the Bloods gang in Los Angeles for 27 years. He became a member of the Bloods in the early 1980s. According to Townsend, this was for ...

Mesmerizingly portrayed with vintage photos and film footage, Crips and Bloods: Made in America opens with a raw look at the violence and unrest that exploded in central Los Angeles during and after ...

In the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Margaret B. Jones grew up in the 1980s, gangs recruited "with the same intensity as the NFL did," she says, and shootouts and hits were so ...

Tyrone White was a member of the 65 Menlo Gangster faction of the Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles during the late '80s and '90s, witnessing police brutality and the LA riots. White speaks with ...

In the 1980s, Tacoma’s Hilltop had a gritty reputation for gangs, drugs and crime. How much has the city changed since then? A new 364 page report concludes gangs are expanding and evolving into ...

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