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The Almighty Vice Lord Nation (Vice Lords for short, abbreviated AVLN) is the second-largest and one of the oldest street and prison gangs in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its total membership is estimated to be between 30,000 and 35,000. It is also one of the founding members of the People Nation multi-gang alliance. [3] [7]
Almighty Black P. Stone Nation; Founded: 1959: Named after: Blackstone Avenue: Founding location: Woodlawn, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.: Years active: 1959–present: Territory: Primarily concentrated in Chicago, some areas of NW Indiana, Michigan, and the neighborhood of Baldwin Village in Los Angeles Rockford Illinois, very populuated on the north side of Rockford Illinois with tons of sets that ...
The 14th Street Clovers were the gang that later became the Vice Lords in the late 1950s. After several members of the 14th Street Clovers were incarcerated by 1957, the Egyptian Cobras had less competition. While incarcerated in the St. Charles Reformatory for Boys, the Clovers organized and became the Vice Lords. When the Vice Lords returned ...
Prosecutors said he was the highest-ranked Mafia Insane Vice Lord in the country and a member of the national leadership. He was also known as "P" and "Marty," per court records. Kevin Fordham, 53 ...
When the Young Lords was a street gang, they respected and looked for guidance from major African American gangs such as the Egyptian Cobras and the Almighty Vice Lord Nation, as well as the Black P. Stones. The latter was a large, new group from the urban-renewal-designated area of 63rd Street. [15]
CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the ...
The Gangster Disciple Nation (often abbreviated as the GD's; formally, GDN), also known as Growth & Development, is an African American street and prison gang founded by former rivals David Barksdale and Larry Hoover; in 1968, the two came together to form the Black Gangster Disciple Nation (BGDN).
Gore came from a complex background, being involved in the Vice Lords and living in a crime-ridden neighborhood, but dreamed of a community that was more involved where the youth had a better chance at success, and sought to turn the Vice Lords into a positive organization. During Gore's tenure, the Vice Lords attempted to change their focus.