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Bastards of the Party is a 2005 American documentary film directed by former Bloods gang-member Cle Sloan and produced by Antoine Fuqua. The film explores the creation of two of Los Angeles's most notorious gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, from the perspective of the Los Angeles community. The film also denounces gang violence and presents ...
Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a 2008 documentary by Stacy Peralta that examines the rise of the Crips and Bloods, prominent gangs in America who have been at war with each other. The documentary focuses on the external factors that caused African-American youth to turn to gangs and questions the political and law enforcement response to ...
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.
Teen-age gang violence: Dramatization of "a typical kid-gang killing" preceded an interview with the leader of a Los Angeles gang and Coates's discussion with a nationally known authority on teen-age gangs who headed the juvenile division of the Detroit Police Department. [20] Treatment of starlets in Hollywood [18]
In Los Angeles' labyrinthian networks of Bloods and Crips gangs, with shifting alliances and feuds, Skipp Townsend is a mediator with credibility on both sides.
Cle "Bone" Shaheed Sloan (born May 22, 1969) is an American activist, actor and documentary director from Los Angeles County, California.While still a member of Athens Park Bloods, [1] [2] a Los Angeles street gang, Sloan worked to reform gang culture to put an end to gang violence from the inside.
Still, Lipsky recalled Johnson as an "anomaly" in the Los Angeles gang world in the 1990s. While serving time at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe for a drug charge in the early '90s, Johnson ran ...
Many interviews take place in Laita's small studio on Skid Row in Los Angeles in front of a backdrop that Paper magazine calls "yearbook photo-esque" and consist of questions about the interviewee's childhood, lifestyle, and plans for the future. [4] He takes a black-and-white portrait of subjects to use as the video's thumbnail on YouTube ...