He retooled the Young Lords into a militant advocacy and service organization, modeled after the Black Panthers. Based in Chicago, it had chapters nationwide. By Clay Risen José Jiménez, a street-wise ...
The founder of the Young Lords, José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, has died at the age of 76. In the 1960s, Jiménez turned a Chicago street gang into a Puerto Rican political organization inspired by the Black ...