Gangs attack a neighborhood in Haiti that's home to the country's elite
Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that’s home to most of the country’s elite and had been largely ...
US Has Frozen Funding for the UN-Backed Mission to Quell Gangs in Haiti, UN Says
The U.S. has been the biggest contributor to the mission led by Kenyan police, which was launched last year and is struggling ...
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From Street Gang to Revolutionaries — José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez and The Young Lords Laid Groundwork for Radical Racial Justice Movements
José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, radical Puerto Rican activist and civil rights icon, passed away on January 10, 2025. He was 76. Best ...
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UnidosNow, Ringling Museum of Art collaborate for third annual NocheUnidos celebration
The event features Bomba Yemayá, from Puerto Rico, and the 79rs Gang, who bring the spirit of Carnival from their New Orleans community. “For our region, this beautiful space is the 'nido'or ...
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Trump’s ICE raids turn up pedophiles, gangbangers, and NY-based suspected terrorist as 538 migrants arrested: ‘Heinous crimes’
Juan Francisco Sanchez Contreras is an MS-13 gang member from El Salvador and ... and even San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, who turned Chicago's Young Lords gang into human rights activist group, dies at 76
"At the time, the gangs were not like the gangs of today ... the 1937 Ponce massacre in Puerto Rico, and activist and Puerto Rican nationalist Pedro Albizu Camps, according to the biography.
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José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, human rights activist and former chair of Young Lords, dead at 76
We built a movement from a gang.” The Young Lords and others march ... before he is returned to Puerto Rico to be buried near his mother. José “Cha Cha” Jiménez talks with members of ...
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José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez, prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader, dies at 76
Mr. Jiménez in the 1960s started the Young Lords as a street gang to counter the growing ... Mr. Jiménez was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on Aug. 8, 1948, and grew up on Chicago’s North ...