He secured a three-picture deal with Columbia Pictures, which ultimately led to the production of 'Boyz N the Hood.' At just 22 years old, Singleton boldly took on the role of director, challenging ...

Authorities arrested six teenagers and one 23-year-old suspected in a damaging graffiti war between rival criminal street gangs in Thousand Oaks. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office announced ...

The convictions and death sentence of the one-time leader of an Atwater Village street gang, who police believed committed at ...

Nearly 50 years after he began filming 'Apocalypse Now' at 14, Fishburne discusses his new film 'The Amateur' and looks back ...

“This place feels like it’s from Indiana Jones,” says a young woman as she passes by the imposing, Tetris-reminiscent ruins ...

What the Hood Half Marathon through the streets of historically Black Los Angeles taught one writer about fear, anxiety, and ...

Eugene Henley, Jr., the former Nipsey Hussle manager better known as Big U, turned himself in to federal authorities on Wednesday night after being charged with leading a “mafia-like” criminal ...

Thirteen suspects were arrested during a large-scale operation targeting gang members in Los Angeles County. Detectives with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department were investigating an Antelope ...

The teenager didn’t always have to eat the drab grits and sausage at Los Padrinos Juvenile ... was considered affiliated with ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Alleged Los Angeles gang leader and so-called rap "godfather'' Eugene Henley Jr., known as "Big U,'' was ordered to remain behind bars Thursday pending a detention hearing in ...

LOS ANGELES, California — A prominent figure in the South Los Angeles-based Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips street gang has been charged with running a criminal enterprise involved in ...