While violence impacts people of all ages regardless of socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity or religion, violence disproportionately affects young people (STRYVE: Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere, 2009). The young person can be a victim, an offender, or a witness to the violence. Some violent…

Former Gang Member Speaks Out

Over the past three months teenagers have been the center of violence and now community members have teamed up with various anti-gang organizations to host several gang prevention programs. Our Fraendy Clervaud talked to a former gang member about gang activity and how he changed his…

Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson suffered more deeply from racism than any blow he may have felt in the ring during his turbulent career in 1908-1910. He won fights while newspapers vilified him, crowds shouted cruel epithets at him and people called for a "Great White Hope" to defeat him.

James "Whitey" Bulger in 1995.

Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, was a New York City newspaper headline staple in the 1970s. A former member of the Black Liberation Party and the Black Panthers, Shakur was convicted of multiple felonies, including armed robbery, attempted murder and murder for…

South Boston criminal and alleged Irish mob leader James J. "Whitey" Bulger has been on the FBI's top 10 Most Wanted listfor the past 10 years for crimes including racketeering, murder and extortion. He's reportedly been spotted all over Europe, from…

Just as he has with many high-profile crimes, John Walsh, the host of "America's Most Wanted," made it a personal mission to locate the suspect in the Thanksgiving day killings.…

Alexander Kelly went from being a Darien, Conn., high school athlete and petty criminal to true crime movie of the week when he skipped out of the U.S. while awaiting trial for the 1987 rapes of two young women.

While on the run, Kelly spent years living the high life on the ski slopes of Europe, his family allegedly supporting him…

Polanski's status as a French citizen proved helpful because France has limited extradition laws with the U.S. Despite being unable to return to the U.S., Polanski has maintained a steady and successful directing career. While abroad, he has directed several films, including the Academy Award-winning 2002 film "The Pianist."

Roman Polanski in…

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The Bishops, Chain Gang, East Side Crusaders, Van Dyke Crusaders, 

Sheridan Strips, Mack Hoods, East Side Hoods, Black Gangsters, Medbury Boys, Black Apaches are all Detroit Street Gangs that came way before the Errol Flynn"s.

The Errol Flynns were a criminal organization, or…

I knew Reggie and his brother Boogaloo, Boogaloo was more low key then Reggie. We used to always seem to end up at some of the same parties, we used to talk and laugh about how tough one or the other’s group, gang, squard clique or what ever people choose to…

Armed with shotguns, Magnums, carbines and clubs, teams of men sweep the streets, enforcing a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for everyone under 18. Citizens cower behind the barricaded doors of their own homes, listening to the shots and shouts that punctuate the night air. The city is not Beirut or Belfast but Detroit, whose agonies are every bit as real and whose conflicts seem equally impossible to eradicate.

After weeks of gang terrorism that included killings, a near riot, robberies,…