CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA d: Stacy Peralta

Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008)
Direction: Stacy Peralta
Screenplay: Stacy Peralta and Sam George
Narration: Forest Whitaker
 

 

In the 1980s and into the first half of the 1990s, gang violence in American urban centers grabbed nightly news headlines with a distant sensationalism that appears almost quaint in the era of the 24-hour news cycle. Perhaps because threats emerging beyond the borders of the United States appear more prevalent or maybe because superficial aspects of the thug life entered the pop culture vernacular, gang warfare in cities such as Los Angeles has bled into the background of media chatter in the last fifteen years.
Crips and Bloods: Made in America reintroduces the conversation into the mainstream. Director Stacy Peralta [...]

by Doug Johnson | October 29, 2009   
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