CHICAGO (CBS) -- Longtime Chicago activist and organizer José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, who transformed the Young Lords from a Lincoln Park neighborhood street gang into a civil and human rights activist ...
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 Associated Press / Residents flee their homes to escape gang violence in the Nazon neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 14. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Gangs in Haiti are recruiting children ...
In 1968, José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez enrolled in a course to earn a high school diploma to fulfill a judge’s requirement after a 60-day stint in Cook County Jail on drug charges. The teacher took the class ...
A former police detective in Illinois joined the Drug Enforcement Administration to help a gang of drug dealers in Puerto Rico and provided the gang with weapons and distributed drugs over a decade, ...