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...film Black and Gold, how one defines "downtown" makes all the difference. A Big Noise film, Black and Gold was made by Jacqueline R. Sooher '90 and Rick Rowley '90 and documents the apparent transformation of the Latin Kings, the largest and most powerful street gang in New York City. In 1994, they became the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, claiming to have abandoned their criminal past and following the examples of the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, a Latino street gang that became a political force in the late 1960s in Chicago. This change to a socially...
...place and DNA evidence drying on the seat of a stolen car. Though Ethan had the wound, both teens were ashen when they got to the hospital--"My God, they were white as sheets," friends would later say. The tale the boys concocted--some highly unbelievable stuff about a gang attack, followed by only slightly more believable stuff about a joyride gone bad--had made the cops suspicious. Rustica would be the inauspicious conclusion to a 12-month robbery spree by two boys who were, everyone thought, model young citizens...
...seat auditorium of the Harvard Film Archive filled well before show time last night. According to documentary filmmaker Jacqueline R. Soohen '00, dozens were turned away before the screening of her film about a former New York City Latino gang that has turned from violence to community activism...
...Black & Gold" juxtaposed statistics, urban images and first person accounts to tell the story of a community that once knew nothing other than the gang lifestyle, but is now uniting in hopes for a better future...
Born in 1994 from the remains of The Latin Kings, once New York's largest street gang, the movement has denounced its criminal background to become a political movement working toward the betterment of New York's Latino community, according to the film...