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Hugo Pinell was born March 10, 1945, in Nicaragua. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] His family immigrated to the US. He died in prison at age 70, after being stabbed on August 12, 2015, by two other inmates (members of the Aryan Brotherhood ) at New Folsom Prison .
The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, [6] [7] the Black Family, [8] the Black Vanguard, [9] and Jamaa [8]) is an African American black power prison gang, street gang, and political organization founded in 1966 by George Jackson, George "Big Jake" Lewis, and W.L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California.
Fay Abrahams Stender (March 29, 1932 – May 19, 1980) was an American lawyer from the San Francisco Bay Area, and a prisoner rights activist.Some of her better-known clients included Black Panther leader Huey Newton, and the Soledad Brothers, including Black Guerrilla Family founder George Jackson.
Black Guerrilla Family Fleeta Drumgo (May 31, 1946 – November 24, 1979) was an American convict and one of the Soledad Brothers , who were three African-American inmates accused of killing prison guard John Vincent Mills on January 16, 1970. [ 1 ]
Jackson’s death, and his writings, and the forming of the Black Guerrilla Family prison Black power gang, brought the justice system’s racial disparities into general public discussion.
In 1971, San Quentin officials charged Talamantez, along with Hugo Pinell, Willie Tate, Johnny Larry Spain, David Johnson, and Fleeta Drumgo, with participating in an August 21, 1971 escape attempt to free George Jackson, a co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family. The escape attempt sparked a riot which left six people dead.
George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an American author, revolutionary, and prisoner. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $70 at gunpoint from a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in the Black power movement and co-founded the prison gang Black Guerrilla Family.
The Silicon Valley Bank bailout has tech elites feeling attacked. Author Malcolm Harris reminds us of a time when the weapons they feared were bombs, not mean tweets.