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The Film

CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA
Explore the filmmakers’s site, which includes a list of the organizations featured in CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA, photos and a blog.

South Los Angeles

NPR.org: Documenting the Evolution of South Central L.A.
Farai Chideya reports on a photo exhibition at the California African American Museum depicting South Central’s history. She is joined by South L.A. native and Los Angeles Times writer Lynell George.

UCLA School of Public Affairs: The State of South L.A. (PDF)
Read a comprehensive report on South L.A.’s demographics and socioeconomic issues, including employment, public safety and housing foreclosures, published by the UCLA School of Public Affairs in August 2008.

Los Angeles Times: Community struggles in anonymity
Listen in as former South Central residents reflect on the neighborhood’s renaming as South Los Angeles, five years after it happened.

Southern California Library: From Generation to Generation: Making a Life in South Los Angeles
Explore this Southern California Library project, featuring historic photographs, poetry and life stories of South L.A. residents.

The New York Times: Fast-Food Curb Meets With Ambivalence in South Los Angeles
Read this August 2008 article discusses the L.A. City Council’s moratorium on new fast food restaurants in a section of South L.A.

The New York Times: Los Angeles Hospital to Close After Failing Tests and Losing Financing
Peruse this article detailing the 2007 closing of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in South L.A.

The New York Times: A Los Angeles Neighborhood Shakes Off Its Troubled Past
Examine this 2005 article on rising home prices in Watts and the affect on the neighborhood’s longtime residents.

PBS.org: A Huey P. Newton Story
Check out the companion site to this 2002 film about Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton includes a wealth of information on historical topics such as the 1965 Watts Riots.

LA Weekly: Children of the Revolutionary
Learn more about Watani Stiner, a former Black Power revolutionary that grew up in Watts and fled to South America after being imprisoned in 1969.

All Power to the People (1997)
Learn about this documentary by Lee Lew-Lee, which examines the history of the Black Panther Party in Los Angeles using the 1992 riots as a springboard.

L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present
By Josh Sides
(University of California Press, 2003)
Take a look at a detailed history of African Americans in Los Angeles, from the 1930s to 2000s.

Gangs

Street Gangs Resource Center
Check out this comprehensive site, which contains detailed information on African American gangs, including the Bloods and the Crips, Latino and Asian gangs in Los Angeles and much more.

The Faith and Service Technical Education Network (FASTEN): Gang Statistics
Explore a collection of gang-related facts and statistics, gathered from U.S. Department of Justice surveys and reports.

Socialist Alternative.org: The Bloods and the Crips
Read an article about the Crips and Bloods and their relationship to police harassment and brutality in Los Angeles.

The New York Times: After the Riots
Peruse this 1992 article about the truce between Bloods and Crips factions.

Gang Research.net: Crips’ and Bloods’ Plan for the Reconstruction of Los Angeles
Study a gang members’ 1992 proposal, drawn up as part of the truce and designed for the improvement of Los Angeles.

The New York Times: Has Stanley Williams Left the Gang?
Get acquainted with this 2003 article, written two years before Stanley “Tookie” Williams’s execution, which discusses his gang advocacy work in prison.

LA Weekly: L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading
Read about escalating gang violence in South L.A. between the years of 2005 and 2007.

HBO: Bastards of the Party (2006)
Enjoy former gang member Cle Sloan’s presentation of a history of the Crips and Bloods and the political landscape in which they flourished following the disintegration of the Black Panthers. The documentary site includes filmmakers interviews and resources.

Gang Prevention and Intervention

Community Safety Series: Community Policing
Learn more about community policing: what it is and how it works. The series is presented by the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association.

Amer-I-Can
Explore this life management skills training program, founded by former Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown.

Unity One
Check out this grassroots network of community-based organizations working for gang prevention and intervention in South L.A.

Maximum Force
Investigate this organization offering intervention education to students and educators.

Central Recovery & Development Project
Examine this nonprofit anti-crime organization founded in Los Angeles in 1991.

Homies Unidos
Explore this organization that focuses on gang intervention among Latino and Central American youth.

2nd Call.org
Check out this program providing life management skills and training, founded by former gang member Skip Townsend.

G.R.E.A.T.
Take a look at this school-based program, instructed by law enforcement officers and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems
(PDF) Learn about the Department of Justice’s strategies and approaches to gang prevention.