Bloods

Nov 2 2010
Gang rivalry Kitchen Crips and Swan Bloods

SOUTH LOS ANGELES, Calif.—An autopsy was pending today on the body of a 5-year-old boy who was shot by two suspected gang members while he showed off his Spider-Man trick-or-treating costume in his yard in South Los Angeles.

The City Council today may also consider offering a reward for information that leads to the two gunmen who killed Aaron Shannon Jr.

Aaron died late Monday at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 77th Street Station police said.

Jun 19 2009

Gang violence in South Los Angeles

In Los Angeles and other urban areas in the United States, the creation of street gangs increased at a shocking pace throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The most well-known gangs of Los Angeles, the Bloods and the Crips, are mostly African American. In addition to the growing number of African American gangs, there are approximately 600 Latino gangs in Los Angeles County with a growing Asian gang population numbering around 20,000 members.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.