The image of a glittering downtown Los Angeles skyline turned upside down, which opens Stacy Peralta’s sobering “Crips and Bloods: Made in America,” is both striking and unnerving. With that ...

Blue Rage, Black Redemption A Memoir Stanley Tookie Williams Touchstone/Damamli: 394 pp., $16 paper ...

The majority of LA street gangs are Latino, ... blue for Crips, red for Bloods. Today, the city’s murder rate is a quarter of what it was in 1980.

In 2022, the crip walk made its first Super Bowl halftime appearance, when Snoop Dogg — who is from Long Beach — performed with other artists, including Eminem, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige and of ...