As a kid growing up in Southern California in the 1980s, it was no surprise that I became a Crip. I learned how to sell drugs and gangbang, and when I moved to Kingston, New York, at age 18, I carried ...

After almost three decades in and out of juvenile hall and prisons, the former O.G. (original gangster) from the feared L.A.-based Crips gang seemed to be turning his life around. Then on March 17 ...