José Jiménez Dies at 76; Turned a Gang Into a Voice for Puerto Ricans
He retooled the Young Lords into a militant advocacy and service organization, modeled after the Black Panthers. Based in ...
Prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader José “Cha Cha” Jiménez dies at 76
José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition has died. He was 76. His sister, Daisy ...
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José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez, prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader, dies at 76
Mr. Jiménez in the 1960s started ... neighborhoods of Chicago. Inspired by the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords challenged institutional racism and police brutality and advocated for health ...
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Founder of Chicago’s Young Lords dies at 76
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Prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez dies at 76
José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ... racism, and police brutality and advocated for health ...
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The Rainbow Coalition: An amazing interracial union in 1960s Chicago
It seems impossible, doesn't it? Well, it happened in Chicago in the '60s, when fed up with police brutality and poor access to education, health care, and housing, a group of so-called "white trash," ...
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Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
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Prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez dies at 76
FILE - Puerto Rican Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, left, founder of the Young Lords in Chicago-area Puerto Rican ... challenged institutional racism, and police brutality and advocated for health care ...