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The meeting was held at the Boys Club on Hoe Avenue in the Bronx, with dozens of street organizations and many city officials and police present. Attendants included the Black Pearls, Savage Skulls, Turbans, Young Sinners, Royal Javelins, Dutchmen, Magnificent Seven, Dirty Dozens, Liberated Panthers, Black Spades, Seven Immortals, Latin Spades, Peacemakers, and Ghetto Brothers. [4]
Former Hartford, Connecticut mayor Eddie Perez was a member of the Ghetto Brothers when young. New York Daily News columnist Robert Dominguez was the leader of a Ghetto Brothers division in the Bronx when he was a teen. In the Connecticut prison system, during the 1990s, the Ghetto Brothers and the Savage Nomads joined to form Los Solidos (the ...
Family members of the Menendez brothers plan to meet with newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman on Friday, Jan. 3, to push for a reduced sentence for the pair.
Watch as Erik and Lyle Menendez appear in court for the first time in 28 years after the shotgun murders of their parents. A judge will decide today if the discovery of new evidence warrants a re ...
Benjamin "Yellow Benjy" Melendez (August 3, 1952 – May 28, 2017) was best known for brokering the gang truce in the Bronx and Harlem (New York City) in 1971. [1] At that time, he was President of the Ghetto Brothers, a mainly ethnically Puerto Rican South Bronx gang, and lead vocalist of a musical group also known as the Ghetto Brothers.
The brothers, who are serving life sentences for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, previously submitted a habeas corpus petition in their bid for freedom after decades ...
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is set to announce his decision Thursday about whether to allow Erik and Lyle Menendez to be resentenced after serving more than 30 years in prison.
The Black Spades were also participants in the Hoe Avenue peace meeting. The Black Spades also included a women's division that started in Clason Point housing and Junior High School I.S. 131. By the early 1970s the Black Spades had increased in numbers and members began to lose focus of their original purpose.