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Grand Theft Auto V (2013) is mostly centered around Black American organized crime, with one of the main protagonists of the game, Franklin Clinton, being part of a Black American gang. Among the antagonists in Watch Dogs (2014) are the Black Viceroys, who were originally a civil-rights group until they turned to crime after their founder was ...
The Black Mafia, also known as the Philadelphia Black Mafia (PBM), Black Muslim Mafia and Muslim Mob, was a Philadelphia-based African-American organized crime syndicate. The organization began in the 1960s as a relatively small criminal collective in South Philadelphia, known for holding up neighborhood crap games and dealing in the illegal drug business, but at its height of operation in the ...
The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), California, have been engaged in a gang war since the 1970s. [30] [31] The war is made up of smaller, local conflicts between chapters of both gangs, and has mostly taken place in major cities in the United States, especially L.A.
Tyrone Muhammad, 53, a former enforcer for the Gangster Disciples who did 20 years in state prison, now runs a violence prevention program in Chicago’s inner city.
American Gangster is a documentary television series that aired on BET. The show features some of Black America's most infamous and powerful gangsters and organized crime groups. [1] It is narrated by Ving Rhames. The series premiere, on November 28, 2006, amassed around one million viewers.
It includes gangsters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "African-American gangsters" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
The gang broadened its reach into other states, and small-time gangsters once happy to score a few hundred dollars now brought home thousands. Sex Money Murder gang grew from Bronx to running ...
The use of songs as a narrative and a tool to convey an important message continued into the 20th century with Black Americans using their voices to help their fight for freedom and equality.