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The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, [6] [7] the Black Family, [8] the Black Vanguard, [9] and Jamaa [8]) is an African American black power prison gang, street gang, and political organization founded in 1966 by George Jackson, George "Big Jake" Lewis, and W.L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California.
Along with the Crips and Bloods, Kumi 415 members have recently provided recruitment pools for the Black Guerrilla Family, a gang with similarly large numbers in the Bay area and Northern California. In the Monterey County Jail , brief alliances have been reported among the Bloods, Crips, and Kumi 415 during the period leading up to Stanley ...
George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an American author, revolutionary, and convicted felon. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $70 at gunpoint from a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in the Black power movement and co-founded the prison gang Black Guerrilla Family.
Jackson’s death, and his writings, and the forming of the Black Guerrilla Family prison Black power gang, brought the justice system’s racial disparities into general public discussion.
In 1966, Nolen co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (BFG), in San Quentin State Prison, along with George Jackson. [2] The BFG was founded on Marxist and Maoist ideology [2] and had the goals of eradicating racism, maintaining dignity in prison, and overthrowing the U.S. government.
DMI was founded by Perry Roark, James Sweeney and Brian Jordan in the late 1990s in the Maryland Department of Corrections.Roark was a close associate of the Black Guerrilla Family and received permission from them to start an organization to unite white inmates in the system.
Attacks between guerrilla groups have also seen thousands displaced from the country's Catatumbo region. Colombian drug gang violence kills 60 people Skip to main content
Community organizer Corey Rogers, 50, right, of the Black P. Stone Nation, showed The Post a whatsapp thread used by gang members that included threats of turf wars with Venezuelan gangbangers.