José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, radical Puerto Rican activist and civil rights icon, passed away on January 10, 2025. He was 76. Best ...

He retooled the Young Lords into a militant advocacy and service organization, modeled after the Black Panthers. Based in ...

Police in Jamaica have killed a top gang leader whose death has unleashed a violent backlash near the capital of Kingston and ...

"At the time, the gangs were not like the gangs of today ... the 1937 Ponce massacre in Puerto Rico, and activist and Puerto Rican nationalist Pedro Albizu Camps, according to the biography.

In the 1960s, Jiménez turned a Chicago street gang into a Puerto Rican political organization inspired by the Black Panthers. José “Cha Cha” Jiménez: “So, the Young Lords were a gang in ...

Mr. Jiménez in the 1960s started the Young Lords as a street gang to counter the growing hostility toward the Puerto Rican community in Lincoln Park, at the time one of the most impoverished ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is disputing a viral report that a Puerto Rican family was detained by immigration officers in Milwaukee while shopping. "It's completely false," an ICE ...

The event features Bomba Yemayá, from Puerto Rico, and the 79rs Gang, who bring the spirit of Carnival from their New Orleans community. “For our region, this beautiful space is the 'nido'or ...