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Media, Poverty and a Lack of Concern

Jeffrey P. Colin | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Violence, Egypt, Tunisia, Media, Romney, Candidates, Gangs, Obama, Election, Unrest, Poor, Poverty, Economy, Greece, Media News
Jeffrey P. Colin

As far back as 2008, members of the progressive advocacy community who focus on poverty were decrying a lack of coverage of rising poverty levels by the media. Since that point, the problem has gotten much worse.

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Going Back to Cali: Story of an At-Risk Youth Turned Advocate

Rev. Romal J. Tune | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Black Community, At-Risk Youth, Social Justice, Education, Poverty, Dropout Prevention, High School Dropouts, Gangs, Family, Sunday Magazine, Black Voices News
Rev. Romal J. Tune

As a teenager, I left California in order to escape a life of crime, death, or seemingly inevitable imprisonment. I recently returned to help a church raise money for their programs that keep kids in school and decrease the dropout rate through the Student SWAG program.

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David Lohr

Former White Supremacist Gang Member Sues A&E For Endangering His Life

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: A&e, White Supremacists, Donald Mazza, Crime News, Crime, Organized Crime, Public Enemy #1, Gangland, Gangs, Lawsuit, Video, Public Enemy Number One, Gang Violence, William Austin, Donald Popeye Mazza, History Channel, Crime News

William Austin, a former white supremacist gang banger turned whistleblower and devout Christian, has filed a law suit against the A&E Television Netw...

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WATCH: Secret Gang For Deputies Who Have Shot Gang Members

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Jump Out Boys, Video, Police Corruption, 3000 Boys, LA Secret Gang, LA Gang Unit, Police Controversy, Jump Out Boys LA, LA Gangs, LA Cop Gang, LA Sheriff Controversy, LA Police Gang, LA Sheriff, Gangs, Los Angeles News

LA County sheriff's detectives have launched an investigation into an alleged secret officer clique called the "Jump Out Boys." Deputies gain membersh...

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Trayvon Martin, Drug Policy, Civil Liberties, Gun Rights: The Common Thread

Richard Feldman | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Gun Rights, Politics, Civil Liberties, Nra, Gangs, Marijuana, Trayvon Martin, Gun Laws, Gun Regulation, Gun Control, Marijuana Laws, Crime News
Richard Feldman

In an economy where failing corporations have to be bailed out by the government, is it not time to end the madness, stop wasting the billions, and begin to create drug policies based on science, personal liberty, and learned lessons?

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2 Of The Deadliest Gangs Join Forces

AP | ROMINA RUIZ-GOIRIENA | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Latin America Gangs, Mara Salvatrucha, Latin America, Drug War, Guatemala, Gangs, World News

By ROMINA RUIZ-GOIRIENA, Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY -- Hardened in the streets and prisons of California and deported in the 1990s to the Cent...

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Gang Charged For High School Prostitution Ring

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Prostitution, Street Gang, Video, Forced Prostitution, High School Prostitution Ring, High School Prostitutes, Prostitution Ring, Prostitues, Crips, Gangs, Education News

Five members of a street gang in Fairfax County, Va., are charged with forcing high school students to work in their prostitution ring, an FBI affidav...

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WATCH: Mom Documents Daughter's Gang-Banging Life

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Nafeesa Toney, Gang Girl Documentary, Gang Girl Film, LA Bloods Documentary, Bloods Documentary, Bloods, Bloods Gang, LA Bloods, Gangs, Valerie Goodloe, Video, LA Gangs, Gang Girl Movie, Gang Girl, Bloods and Crips, Gang Girls, Gangs Women, Los Angeles News

Imagine finding out one day that your daughter is a member of the LA Bloods gang. That is what happened to unsuspecting mother, Valerie Goodloe, Lu Pa...

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The Indie on Demand Movie Review: The Interrupters

Dan Persons | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Latinos, Inner City, Gang Violence, Chicago, Documentary, Ceasefire, Gangs, African Americans, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In this week's quickie Indie on Demand Movie Review, we take a look at The Interrupters, a documentary, now available on-demand.

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Female Gang Members On Love And Motherhood

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Book News, Gang Motherhood, Drug Gangs, Gang Books, Gang Violence, Girl Gang Members, Gangs Book, Gangs, Gang Love, Girl Gangs, Female Gang Members, Books News

The following is an excerpt from "Jumped In" by Jorja Leap [Beacon Press, $26.96] No one believes I’m in a gang. My mama don’t believe I’m i...

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Forgiveness: Finding the Gift in the Wound

Marina Cantacuzino | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Restorative Justice, Youth Justice, Azim Khamisa, Forgiveness, Gangs, Crime News
Marina Cantacuzino

"Who is the enemy?" asks Azim, "the 14-year-old who killed my son or societal forces that forced Tony to join a gang? There were victims at both ends of the gun."

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Vicious Circles

Carrie White | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Hairdressing, Gangs, Los Angeles, Tattoos, Recovery, Homeboy Industries, Culture News
Carrie White

I see a sign over another door: Tattoo Removal. I had noticed this place was filled with people who had more ink on them than I had seen at a lifetime of rock concerts. "Hard to get a job with F*^k You tattooed across your forehead," Bird says.

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White Supremacist Worked With Black Gang Member To Make Meth: Cops

AP | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Richard Treis, White Supremacists, Video, St. Louis Crime, Drug Enforcement Administration, Missouri Crime, Robert "Biz" Swinney, Gang Members, Gangs, Methamphetamine, Weird News News

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Authorities allege that the quest to make methamphetamine has led to an unlikely alliance -- a white supremacist and a black inner-c...

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WATCH: Why Hasn't This Atlanta Anti-Gay Crime Victim Come Forward?

Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Atlanta Hate Crime, Gay Rights, Gang Violence, Homophobia, LGBT Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, Gay Hate Crime, Gangs, Anti-Gay Hate Crimes, Gay Voices News

Shockingly brutal footage of an Atlanta gang beating up a local teenager who reportedly was targeted due to his perceived sexual orientation has gone ...

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Mike Sacks

Justices Weigh Guns, Gangs And Broad Search Warrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Video, Messerschmidt-v-Millender, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, Crips, Search Warrant, Fourth Amendment, Gangs, Guns, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court grappled with guns, gangs and a detective's good faith in executing a search warrant at oral argument Monday morning. ...

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D.C. Area's 'Blond Bandit' Now In Baltimore?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Virginia, DC News, Video, Carjackings, Crime, District of Columbia, Cars, Blond Bandit, Stephanie Schwab, Gangs, Ms-13, Maryland, DC News

Baltimore County police are looking for help in locating an alleged carjacker and possible bank robber who has come to be known as the "Blond Bandit" ...

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Rivaling Brownsville Gangs To Schedule Peace Talk To Stop Violence

Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Zurana Horton, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Crime, Bloods, Brooklyn Gangs, Brownsville, Brownsville Brooklyn, Gangs, NY Crime, New York Gangs, New York News

Following years of increasing violence and last month's horrific murder of Zurana Horton, the mother of 12 children who bravely shielded students from...

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Cameraman Killed In Police Operation In Rio Slum

AP | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Journalists, Brasil, Latin America, Shantytown, Gangs, Rio De Janeiro, Slums, World News

SAO PAULO -- A Brazilian television network says one of its cameramen has been shot to death during a police operation against drug traffickers in a R...

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FBI Considers Juggalos A Gang

Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Fbi Considers Juggalos a Gang, Insane Clown Posse, Video, Juggalo, Juggalos Gang, Gang, Fbi, Juggalo Gang, Juggalos, Gangs, Crime News

The FBI is monitoring a growing gang with members across the country who dress in customary colors, assemble for rowdy annual meetings and control the...

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Jorge Luis Macias

HIV, Life Or Death: The Story Of Alex Castillo

HuffingtonPost.com | Jorge Luis Macias | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Latinos, HIV/AIDS, Latino Issues, Video, Bienestar, Hiv, Drugs, Gangs, Los Angeles Gangs, Gay Issues, Latino Voices News

LOS ANGELES -- As a teenager, Alex Castillo had a hard time handling his homosexuality, and found it pretty much impossible to talk about it with his ...

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The Abandoned Class

Robert Koehler | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Violence, Public Interest, Peacekeeping, Poverty, Common Good, Gangs, Enlightened Self-Interest, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
Robert Koehler

Will Occupy Wall Street hold together long enough to cut to the deep chase?

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Aurelia Fierros

Latino Teens Write Stories Telling Full Tale Of Their 'Hood

HuffingtonPost.com | Aurelia Fierros | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Latinos, Annenberg School, Homeboy Industries, Newspapers, Boyle Heights Beat, Spanish, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, Gangs, The California Endowment, Teenagers, La Opinion, Latino Voices News

In the Latino neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, a group of high school students write and produce a newspaper looking at their own communi...

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WATCH: A Cure For Inner-City Violence?

Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Innercity Violence, Video, Murder Rates, Homicide, Operation Ceasefire, David Kennedy, Gang Violence, Gang, Violence, Gang Members, Gangs, You've Got, Inner-City Violence, Homicide Rates, Crime News

Finding a way to end gang violence is as easy as offering gang members a "way out." At least according to David Kennedy, author of "Don't Shoot" an...

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Eden Center Businesses: Crime Probe Is Unfair, Will Hurt Business

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Gambling, Virginia, Dragon Family, Eden Center, Falls Church, Crime Probe, Gangs, Vietnamese, Home News

Emotions have been running high in Northern Virginia's Vietnamese community since last month's gang task force raid on the popular Eden Center shoppin...

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Chicago Gang Rivals Band Together To Control Neighborhood Drug Trade

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Drug Trade, Chicago Gangs, Gangs, Chicago Crime, Chicago Drugs, Chicago News

At first glance, the intersection of Lexington and Pulaski doesn't look very prosperous. Ugly, empty lots anchor two of the corners. There's a yell...

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