Black and Gold

Can a street gang transform itself into a community service organization? The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation of New York City contend that they've done just that. The Latin Kings were organized in the 1940s in a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood to protect their community from violent outsiders, but the group had become an especially rough street gang by the 1960s, and in the 1980s they moved into organized crime, including drug dealing. But in the '90s, after several of the org...