Droppin' Out, A Song For Derrion Albert
Here's a music video I did last year with students that I used to teach. Many of the students I taught were involved in gangs. When I saw Derrion A...
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Chicago Beating Death Shocks White House -- But Now What?
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago
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In the past year more than 40 young persons have been murdered in Chicago, many within a stone's throw of the president's home.
Public Health Key To Reducing Urban Violence: Kotlowitz
The Daily Northwestern | Lauren Kelleher | Posted 09.28.2009 | Chicago
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According to acclaimed author Alex Kotlowitz, an unlikely tool - public health - can be used to help combat violence in Chicago's impoverished neighbo...
Police Send 40 Squad Cars To Break Up Northwest Side Gang Fight
Chicago Tribune | Posted 09.28.2009 | Chicago
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Chicago police quelled a large gang fight on a busy Northwest Side street early this morning....
Uptown Residents Demand Action After Gang Violence Erupts In Streets (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 09.17.2009 | Chicago
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UPDATED Uptown residents are furious over escalating neighborhood violence and what they perceive as their alderman's ambivalence to it. Fed up afte...
Homeboy Industries: Producing Hope
Fr. Gregory Boyle | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living
Homeboy Industries is now the largest gang intervention program in the US. Serving 12 thousand clients a year, 8 thousand gang members from 700 different gangs, we offer comprehensive services to those for whom hope is foreign.
G-Force: Disney's Loveable Rodent Gets an AK-47
Tom Gregory | Posted 08.17.2009 | Entertainment
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This week Disney launched its D-Day assault. With the advertisements for G-Force gracing every highway across America, big artillery has reached the "cute" stage.
Summer Night Lights
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Last summer, our City came forward with a simple -- yet radical -- idea. For two months, we dared to challenge the conventional wisdom that gun violence and gang battles plague the summer months.
Long Island Gangs Cut Short Young Lives
New York Times | SARAH GARLAND | Posted 07.22.2009 | New York
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Youth gangs are a troubling problem on Long Island...
Breaking the Cycle of Inner-City Gang Violence
Baron Davis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment
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Until we stop looking at these kids as monsters we will never break the cycle of gang violence.
Guns and Drugs: How US Policies Destroy Our Inner Cities and the Third World
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
By arresting minorities, America tries to show that it's fighting the drug problem while Whites in the suburbs are free to use and abuse drugs without solid police interference.
Guatemala Teens Allegedly Film Body Dismemberment
AP | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
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GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan police say two teenagers suspected of killing one of their gang leaders used a cell phone to record the victim being...
Tijuana: Gangsters Spill Blood, Spread Fear (VIDEO)
Worldfocus | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
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During the last year, more than 6,000 people have been murdered in Mexico's drug wars, more than 700 of them in Tijuana alone. Teodoro Eduardo Garc...
Mexico's Drug Wars Reach Cancun
Los Angeles Times | Ken Ellingwood | Posted 04.02.2009 | World
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Reporting from Cancun, Mexico -- The suspect cruised around in an SUV that had been reported stolen. He toted corrido music glorifying drug smugglers ...
Mexican Drug Gangs Terrorize Town, Police Force
AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 03.20.2009 | World
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VILLA AHUMADA, Mexico — For people caught inside Mexico's drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especiall...
Obama Knows Slow and Steady Wins Race Relations
Danny Groner | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
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Since President-elect Barack Obama won the election last month, there's been some speculation about what this means for the American black community. ...
The War At Home: Homicides On The Rise In The US (VIDEO)
American News Project | Posted 09.06.2008 | Home
Via American News Project This week marks National Night Out - a sign of solidarity when American families turn on their porch lights to ward of pred...
Homeboy Industries -- Hope Has a New Address
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
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Homeboy Industries is the largest gang intervention program in the US and is in the front ranks of diverting young people from the trajectory that leads to marginalized lives, imprisonment and premature death.
Britain's Mean Teens
Time | Catherine Mayer | Posted 04.05.2008 | Living
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Staying home in the face of danger isn't the British way. After suicide bombings in July 2005, Londoners continued working and socializing. Yet a surv...
Gang-Bangers Banned From Military
Wired | Noah Shachtman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
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A new bill passed by Congress means you can no longer be a member of the military and a member of a gang at the same time. The 2008 Defense authoriza...
Father Figure
GOOD Magazine | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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Father Greg Boyle wants to stop the causes of gang violence, instead of waiting to clean up the results.
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