A mother was fatally shot in Chicago. Authorities said she was caught in a crossfire while standing outside with her 1-year-old daughter.
Four Georgia teens pursued summer jobs to stay out of trouble. They were pressured to join neighborhood gangs.
Taking “can’t we all just get along” to another level, members of the Grape Street Crips gang in Memphis have joined with members of Ku…
An Atlanta teenager miraculously survived being shot 15 times after he told his gang that he wanted to leave so he could live a normal, law-abiding life. His desire to leave the Young Mob gang didn’t sit well with the gang, whose motto is “Stay in until you die.” On February 15, Orentheal Childs, 19, […]
Lecrae Moore was raised by a single mother and heavily influenced by relatives who were gang members. “I was brought up in hip-hop culture, and I idolized my uncles, who were involved in gangs. I even wanted every tattoo those uncles had. I just sat on their laps and soaked it all in.” As a […]
Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old Chicago teen who was gunned down in South Side Chicago’s Harsh park on Tuesday afternoon after school, appeared in a 2008 anti-gang PSA when she was in the 6th grade. As we previously reported, Hadiya performed at the Inauguration of President Obama just over one week ago. The president has not […]
