Inside the History of the Black Guerrilla Family. The Black Guerrilla Family 1966 - 1971: The Violent History of California's Most Notorious Prison Gang Paperback - May 12, 2022 by Mbutu Angola Ougadougou (Author) 4 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover $29.99 Other new from $29.99 Paperback $12.99 Other new from $12.99 Being a member of a gang is associated with power and financial prosperity . Ive been told that in federal prison BGF is a force to be reckoned with. Not to say they arent highly organized, but for various reasons, some internal and external, there is some fragmentation in the organization. This is important because for many years the CDC considered any books, magazines or even a letter that mentioned George Jacksons name as contraband. Listen, man, we [are] on the verge of big things, Brown said, and Bailey assured him that whatever you need me to do, man, Im there. This positive movement that we are embarking upon now . For instance, Ferranti (2014) reports that an organization named Black Guerrilla Family, or BGF, turned Maryland's prison system into its playground. What do you think their status in federal prison is? Davenport, for instance, helps smuggle contraband into prison, prosecutors say, and serves as a conduit of information to support Browns violent, drug-dealing, extortion, and smuggling racket. This is an interesting question. The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) formed at a time when the California Department of Corrections (CDC) was a hot bed of gang activity. Describe the split in BGF and what it means? Brown was indicted in 2009, but the success of his Maryland operation can be seen in the details of his life behind bars that the indictment revealed: "He had officers bring him meals of crab imperial and Grey Goose Vodka to wash it down," court documents (per Vice) showed. Weather Retort: Is Maryland in for Doom and Gloom on the ClimateFront? Law enforcement put out bogus reports like they did when those cops were shot in NY that BGF was calling for cops to be killed. I endorsed it because it could have some impact on the increasing gang problem, because people would read and understand this, as opposed to more academic writing that doesnt connect with young people. To me it also shows how law enforcement can suppress a group when they choose to. All of them women, they include three former prison guards, Davenport, suspected drug dealer Lakia Hatchett, and Cassandra Adams, who is Glasschos girlfriend and alleged accomplice. When talking about BGF he told me, Aint nobody messing with them.. Given the sprawling conspiracies, one can imagine why Freemans in fear at the Supermaxand why the released women should be breathing a sigh of relief. For dramatic loss of legitimate appearances, Tomeka Harris may take the cake among the BGF co-defendants. Baltimores Leaking Sewage Problem Just GotInteresting. Black August documents are commonly used as a training and recruitment tool by thc BGF. Meanwhile, more than half of the 650 prison officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center were complicit in the gang's smuggling of contraband, as Vice reported. No. Originally to be a BGF in Cali one of the requirements was to have a life sentence. The contention that Glasscho was a Belvedere Hotel habitu while dealing drugs for the BGF suggests that, until the indictments came down, the prison gang was becoming quite comfortable in mainstream Baltimore life. The back cover of The Black Book has the following endorsement from Powers: These are difficult days that require concrete, specific, effective solutions. This book is a means to that end. Of the 25 BGF defendants, five were granted conditional release. The tale of the Black Panthers and the BGF is romantic to many inner-city residents trying to fight their way out of poverty. Books. By the time the DEA started tapping his illegal prison cell phones in February, the 40-year-old inmate and author, who was nearing the end of a lengthy sentence for drug dealing, had teamed up with his wife, Davenport, to start a non-profit, Harambee Jamaa, which aims to promote peace and community betterment. Learn more I cant elaborate any further on this and its aftermath at this time. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. The Black Guerrilla Family ( BGF, also known as the Black Family, [6] the Black Vanguard, [7] and Jamaa [6]) is an African-American black power prison and street gang founded in 1966 by George Jackson, George "Big Jake" Lewis, and W. L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California . Some of the notable alleged members of BGF includeNathan Barksdale. Nolen, David Johnson, and James Carr. The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) formed at a time when the California Department of Corrections (CDC) was a hot bed of gang activity. As more and more of the BGF hardliners were taking off the yards this paradigm shifted and the relationships became more antagonistic. In the Maryland prison system BGF is at the top of the food chain. The feds assertions about the nefarious functions of The Black Book, though, are considered over-the-top by at least one educator: Tyrone Powers, the director of Anne Arundel County Community Colleges Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Institute and an advisory board member of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services Thomas J.S. It calls itself a living policy book, and includes lessons on civics, economics, and gender roles. The Black Guerilla Family began in California in the 1960s but has since spread across the country. The all-African American BGF was started in the 1960s in San Quentin prison by the late activist George Jackson. As White's testimony revealed, the leader and his associates used sex to leverage the guards into becoming accomplices in one of the widest-spread cases of conspiracy and corruption in the history of the American prison system. Though it is unclear what, if any, ties the raids have to BGFs currently indicted dealings, they call to mind instances in the BGF case where the Belvedere Hotel appears. There was a black power movement going on, the prison reform movement going on and the drug game and street culture were at the beginnings of what it would turn into over the next several decades. However, as some individuals were eventually released to the streets it was difficult to find the same level of individuals as in the prison system, so membership on the streets didnt blossom as it was a quality over quantity thing in Cali. Powers says in a phone interview that he knows Brown by going into the prison system as part of an effort to deal with three or four different gangs. Powers is totally unapologetic about endorsing The Black Book. The trappings of legitimacy are most elaborate, though, with Eric Marcell Brown, the lead defendant in the BGF prison-gang indictment. It's not something that's tattooed on bodies or openly advertised publicly, it's an unspoken loyalty that is not something easily validated by law enforcement. It was founded in 1955 and is now based out of Lawrenceville, Georgia. (LogOut/ Brown, with his book and his non-profit organization, wasnt up and running at nearly the same scale as No Guns and Ceasefire, and theres no evidence he was grant-funded. Or 42-year-old Tyrone Dow, who with his brother has been running a car detailing shop on Lovegrove Street, behind Mount Vernons Belvedere Hotel, ostensibly for nearly as long. So back Freeman goes to face his BGF fears. An overarching presence in the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) prison-gang conspiracies indicted in April by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland is not a person, but a book. A former FBI agent and Maryland State Police trooper, Powers has a Ph.D. in sociology and justice from American University and hosts a radio show called The Powers Report.. Now this faction would be more prone to being involved in the rioting, but to my knowledge there hasnt been any official organized participation by BGF in the riots. The Black Guerrilla Family gang is affiliated with the Black August Organizing Committee which is an umbrella group for the gang and other organizations. (LogOut/ I did have a jobI was working, Freeman says of his days before his BGF arrest, and says of his family and friends, about 20 of whom are watching from the benches of the courtroom gallery, I got the kids here, responsible adults here. He declares hes not a flight risk and says he always come[s] to court when Im told. He stresses, I am a responsible adult.. An illustration of an open book. SHOW ALL. FoundingThe Black Guerrilla Family Gang was founded in 1966 in San Quentin State Prison in California by Black Panthers George Jackson, W.L. Founded by George Jackson, who also was a Panther, the BGF surrounded itself with much of. Hes being detained, pending an as-yet unscheduled trial, at downtown Baltimores Supermax prison facility, where he says he fears for his safety. After reading Bgf Black Book I couldn't believe that I waited so long to pick it up. by Laurell K. Hamilton Book 5 of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series Chapter 1 It was St. Patrick's Day, and the o . Gang members can be influential in anti-gang efforts, and we have got to utilize them. holds between two thousand and twenty-three hundred inmates at a time, and the authorities estimate that about half are addicts of one kind or another. His lawyer played up Robinsons city job, and even had his supervisor, Dorothy Harris, on hand in the courtroom to attest to his reliability at work. Grey was suspected of murdering Asia Carter, who was believed to have helped rob the drug operation Grey then ran with David "Oakie" Rich, who, while an inmate awaiting trial on federal armed drug-trafficking charges, also earned a mention in other BGF-related court documents. In this case you had shot callers from all 3 groups working together. All were deemed sufficiently responsible adults to avoid being jailed before trial, so long as they continue to meet strict conditions. But BGF was hardly slowed. But then, to the dismay of the investigators who worked so hard and for so long to bring the kingpin to justice, it turns out that prison is a cushy number. In early April, for instance, hes caught on the wiretap talking with Lance Walker, an alleged BGF member whose recent 40-year sentence on federal drug-dealing charges was compounded in July by a life sentence on state murder charges. All linked Jones to the BGF and to the crimes he was alleged to have committed. If White has testified about anything having to do with cambone, it was a reference from the stand to a man named Cleo "Gutter" Blue, who he described as the BGF's "minister of education" inside the jail. An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. When they formed they were considered a big threat to the CDC due to their politics. BGF made national headlines after it was discovered that BGF member Tevon White controlled the Baltimore. The state of BGF today. The thing is one has to remember there is a faction of BGF(BEN) that is criminal and there only interest is in self profit, so its unlikely that they would really be overly concerned about rioting unless there were some self serving purpose. In June 2008, Dow and his brother were highlighted in a Baltimore Examiner business article about the fortunes of Baltimore-area garage-based premium car-wash services during an economic downturn. BALTIMOREA federal grand jury returned a racketeering indictment charging 25 individuals, including 13 correctional officers with the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, for conspiring to run operations of the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang inside correctional facilities. is moving at a rapid pace, Brown continued, and is happening on almost every location. He exhorted Bailey with a slogan, Revolution is the only solution, brother, and promised to send copies of his book, explaining how to use it as a classroom study guide. He was only just beginning to set up his self-financed positive vibe from inside his prison cell. Daniel Vasquez, who started his ten-year tenure as . Danger signs from prison first cropped up in the case immediately after it was filed, though, when Fuchs colleague on the case, James Wallner, told a judge on Apr. Entitled The. The feds werent buying Zorzits non-gambling cover, though, and, based on a pattern of evidence that suggests hes running a betting racket, in late January they filed a forfeiture suit and sought to seize as many of Zorzits assets as they could find. No, we are not. . I have not been able to verify this on paper, but Ive heard on more than one occasion that in order for a Black to be housed in the SHU they have to be labeled BGF. The Black Guerrilla Family was an offshoot of the Black Panthers, which Newton co-founded in 1967. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Kudos, to Eric Brown (E.B.) I know Eric Brown was a major player inside the prison doing that work. Powers, in a mid-May phone interview, explains that I met Eric [Brown] by going into the prison system as part of an effort to deal with three or four different gangs. I love you all, he calls out to his 20-or-so family members and friends in the gallery, as U.S. marshals escort him out of the courtroom. He is the same individual depicted in the HBO series The Wire. 21 that the BGF had allegedly offered $10,000 for a hit placed out on several correctional officers and all others involved in this investigation, and that would include prosecutors (BGF Offers $10,000 for Hits, Prosecutor Says, The News Hole, April 23). During the area of the split an attempt was made of his life reportedly on the orders of Fela, a hit squad of 3 individuals attacked Yogi in his cell all 3 were taken to the hospital afterwards, 6. . Revised 2021 - The History of the Black Guerrilla Family tracks the evolution of the BGF from George Jackson and other early Black prisoners in California. The details of the more than two dozen defendants indicted in the BGF case, filed against a Maryland offshoot of BGFs national organization, suggest Freeman is not the only one among them who craves legitimacy. 1,151 books23.5k followers. This pulling of BGF members off the mainline was also done as a power play to strengthen the other groups that were making a play for power at the time. By C1 Staff. . . Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Members hold cultural unity, group protection and the promotion of armed revolution above all else. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Black Book: Feds say prison gangs self-improvement guide is a money-laundering recruitmenttool, Black-Booked: The Black Guerrilla Family prison gang sought legitimacy, but got indictments Van Smith, Round Two: The feds take another whack at the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang in Baltimore Van Smith, Inside Out: New Fed Charges Allege Prison Gangs Street Operations Infiltrate Nonprofit Anti-Gang Efforts Van Smith, Health-Care Worker Accused of Being at Epicenter of Baltimore Crime as Shot-Caller for Black Guerrilla Family Van Smith, Partial Admission: Tearful gang leader sentenced on RICO charges he calls overblown Van Smith, A short, link-littered history of City Papers Black Guerrilla Family coverage Van Smith, The Black Guerrilla Familys Maryland Chapter Is All About Ben Van Smith, Out of Reach: The Black Guerrilla Family Gang Aimed to Show a Way Out of the Criminal Lifestyle Until Its Criminal Activities Brought It Down Van Smith. He may be accused of being caught on wiretaps arranging drug transactions and of being witnessed by investigators participating in one. In Baltimore the relationship on the street between BGF and Bloodscan be viewed asantagonistic. CS1 reported that Eric Brown had recently published "The Black Book - Empowering Black Families and Communities" (hereinafter the "Black Book"). Ambitious and charismatic, in the early 2010s White became leader of the Black Guerilla Family prison and street gang, and masterminded the gang's taking control of the Maryland prison system. As soon as it was published, the California . If they refuse, they can be targeted for violence," per the Washington Post. download 1 file . The book was an The Black Panthers saw the police as enemies of social change 10 . In open court, though, Gigliotti has said only that Freeman feels endangered by conditions at the Supermax, that several of his co-defendants also are housed there, and that at a minimum, Bredar should put him in a halfway house, or at home with his sister under electronic monitoring. The judge disagrees, but Freemanagainst Judge Bredars adamant warning that its a bad idea and that any statement you make could be used against youstill wants to speak. The Black Guerilla Family has an ideological doctrine that considers all blacks political prisoners, and has attempted to organized black advocacy by the imposition of their commands upon other inmates. He looked poised and professional, with his clean-shaven head, trimmed mustache, and designer glasses. And he was observed conducting them. I remember watching one of those NBC Lockup shows and they were interviewing this guy in the SHU and he was complaining that he was labeled BGF when he was a Crip, so it could be some truth to that. The quote on the back of the book is only about the work that I witnessed: no more, no less.. Even 30-year-old Rainbow Lee Williams, a recently released murderer, managed to get a job working as a mentor for at-risk public-school youngsters. It was published in 1975 by Herman Graf Associates of New York. Black Book is a valuation website that provides data and car values primarily to dealerships. My thoughts on the Tavon White and BGF case, well it sheds light on the extent the power of BGF in the Maryland system goes. It shows how the BGF spread into the Federal system and Maryland-DOC. To say that White turned operations up a notch would be an understatement; with White at the helm, the Maryland arm of the Black Guerilla Family was about to go stratospheric. This book provides that and more. The Black Book and Harambee Jamaa, the governments version continues, are fronts for Browns ill-gotten BGF gains, which, thanks to complicit correctional employees, are derived from operating both in prisons and on the outside. How about with the Mexican Mafia or Aryan Brotherhood? Glimpses of Browns leadership style are documented in the criminal evidence against him, including a conference call last Nov. 18 between Brown and two other inmates, Comrade Doc and Thomas Bailey, each on the line from different prisons. For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his . Harris made another public appearance before the BGF indictment came down in April. Now at one time the 2 concepts existed together, but over time people began to focus on BEN and lose sight of Cambone and eventually breaking off into separate branches. They would have sex with 'em." The corrections officers smuggled in phones, tobacco, Percocet pills, marijuana and much harder drugs to members of the Black Guerrilla Family. Fitzgerald was not indicted in the BGF case, and though recently released from prison on prior charges, he has since been arrested in a separate federal drug-dealing case. It was given high praise by some pretty esteemed people in Maryland. Shes been on the ropes since late last year, when in December she caught federal bank-fraud and identity-theft charges in Maryland, in a case involving Green Dot prepaid debit cards that turned up later as the currency for the BGFs prison-based economy. Im a responsible adult, 41-year-old Avon Freeman says to Baltimore U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge James Bredar. "When Brown was shipped into the Federal Bureau of Prisons, White (pictured above) emerged as the new leader for the BGF in the Maryland system," according to Vice. BGF traces its roots to the revolutionary prison writings of a former Black Panther in California. What White has described from the standthat, even though he wasn't a "bushman," or high-ranking BGF member, he was able to take command of the jail because the BGF hierarchy on the streets believed in his ability to run the jail's lucrative contraband economy, using correctional officers to smuggle prohibited goods such as pot, painkillers, tobacco, and phones to sell inside at exorbitant, sometimes fraudulent mark-ups in order to make boatloads of money for himself and the BGF, even as he had to deal with rival Joseph "Monster" Young, a bushman who wanted to unseat Whiteis pure ben. (LogOut/ We need to be bringing the gang members together and tell them theres no win in that, except for prison or the cemetery. Despite the vortex of drama that has been Harris life of late, she seems calm and collected at her first appearance in the BGF case on April 16. Yeah you gotta come down to the Belvedere Hotel, homey, Glasscho told Scipio, who said, Alright, Im gonna call you when Im close. Just before they met there, though, Scipio called back and told Glasscho to get the fuck away from there because its on the [police] scanner that the peoples is on you, referring to law enforcers. If thats the case with any of the BGF co-defendants, theyre going to have their chance to prove it, just as the prosecutors will have theirs to prove otherwise. This concept of BEN and Cambone is in Cali as well as Maryland. At first, the project was designed as a way to resist and eradicate racism within the San Quentin State Prison in California while attempting to overthrow the current government. All other . Brittany Michelle Friedman is an American sociologist focusing on criminology, racial inequality, and incarceration. The BGF formed in Maryland about 1996. Perhaps preexistent, but discovered by the FBI, in 1982, was a revival movement of BGF which split from less politically oriented elements which had gained ground since Black August. Meanwhile, Harris still found the time to be Eric Browns girlfriend, according to the BGF court documents, in addition to helping the BGF smuggle, communicate, and arrange its finances. This recruitment has been up and down because remember BGF was initially quality over quantity and member of these gang members were often to undisciplined to be taken into the fold. There arent a lot of Crips on the streets of B-more. It may have happened in Chicago last year, when two workers for the anti-violence group Ceasefire, which uses ex-gangmembers as street mediators, were charged in a 31-defendant gang prosecution. During court proceedings in the BGF indictments, Assistant U.S. Attorney James Wallner has claimed that The Black Book generates profits used to underwrite BGF crimes. Most of the rest were inmates already, or accused drug dealers, smugglers, and armed robbers, except for the three corrections employees and one former employee who are accused as corrupt enablers, betraying public trust to help out in Brown and Glasschos criminal world. Harris is referred to as its owner only in a March 3 police report, in which she advised that she and her husband are the current owners of Club 410 and that she has no dealings with the previous owners for several years. Making matters murkier is the fact that Andrea Huff, whose name is on the liquor license is Harris alias in her BGF indictment. Brown, Davenport, and 23 other co-defendants named in the two BGF indictments are accused of drug dealing, prison smuggling, violence, and extortion. An adjudicated version of what happened with the BGFbe it at trial or in guilty pleaseventually will substantiate who among them, if any, are responsible adult[s].. Williams fortunes, though, had been rising since he was released from prison last fall after serving out time for a murder conviction. As the only BGF co-defendant named in both indictments, he alone bridges both the drug-dealing and the prison-gang conspiracies that the government alleges. I know Eric Brown was a major player inside the prison doing that work. TORRENT download. Its ideological basis is rooted in the 1960s radical politics of BGF founder George Jackson, the inmate revolutionary in California who, until his death in 1971, pitched the same self-sufficient economic and social separatism that The Black Book preaches. Addeddate 2015-12-14 14:06:07 Identifier GeorgeJacksonBloodInMyEye Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6158fp96 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ppi 300 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3. plus-circle Add Review. BEN( black entrepreneurial network) Cambone. The alleged drug deal was quickly aborted. Three "New Afrikan" prisoners in California Security Housing Units (Pelican Bay and Corcoran State Prisons) have recently written to Solitary Watch criticizing their continued isolation for being members of the Black Guerilla Family (BGF), the only black prison gang in California that will lead to placement in the SHU. said Johnson, who wrote a book about his experience at the jail. So here relationship with bloods n crips on the inside is often times one of co-existing. Mexican Heat. Throughout, despite rhetorical calls for defiance against perceived oppression and injustice, it promotes what appears to be lawful behaviorwith the notable exception of domestic abuse, given its instructions that the husband of a disobedient wife should beat her lightly., The BGF is not mentioned by name in The Black Book, which instead refers to The Family (or Jamaa, the Swahili equivalent), explaining that it is not a gang but an organization. The back cover features printed kudos from local educators, including two-time Democratic candidate for Baltimore mayor Andrey Bundley, now a high-ranking Baltimore City public-schools official in charge of alternative-education programs. The reason this is so is that this is the natural progression of things when individuals are released from prison. He has availed his leadership capacity in Jamaa to guide his comrades toward truth, justice, freedom and equality., Jamaa, according to The Black Book, is a Swahili word for family that is defined as an organization geared towards revitalizing our people and our hoods. Brown and Davenport last year formed a non-profit organization called Harambee Jamaa Inc., which, according to its incorporation papers, intends to education, invigorate and liberate our people from poverty, crime, and prison., Ive seen [rival gangs] come together in one room and work on the lessons in The Black Book to get themselves together, Bundley told The Baltimore Sun in early May. It was all founded on misinformation and this policy has been overturned by the court system in California in recent years due to the historical lack of evidence showing that during Jacksons lifetime there was no evidence of the existence of the BGF. A late-July visit there reveals that it is still operating, and that the property is right next to the rear entrance of the Belvedere Hotel parking garage. According to Mutope Duguma (legal name [] CS1, when laying out the BGF leadership structure for DEA investigators in late 2008 and early 2009, gave special treatment to Rainbow Williams and Gregory Fitzgerald. His story is baffling because it inverts everything we think we know about the nature of power, and tells us that prison as an institution may itself be exploited for criminal ends. The story of the Black Guerilla Family, what it stands for, and how it came to be so powerful in Maryland is notable in and of itself, even before we come to the subject of Tavon White. Much of the BGF hardliners were rounded up and sent to the SHU for extensive lengths of time. In fact, no company by that name exists in Marylands corporate records. Take, for instance, Deitra Davenport. What role do I think BGF members played in the recent Baltimore riot? 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