The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, [6][7] the Black Family, [8] the Black Vanguard, [9] and Jamaa[8]) is an African American black power prison gang, …

George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an American author, prisoner, and revolutionary. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $70 at …

In the 1960s, the Black Family merged with the Black Panther Party and the Black United Movement to form what is now called the BGF. The BGF is anti-White and considers law …

Jul 16, 2012 · They were also gang members associated with the revolutionary Black Guerrilla Family (B.G.F.) prison gang and Elrader (Ray Ray) Browning drug trafficking organization. …

May 15, 2015 · The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) formed at a time when the California Department of Corrections (CDC) was a hot bed of gang activity. There was a black power …

The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) came to be in 1966, the creation of Black Panther Party member, activist, and author George Jackson and fellow inmate W. L. Nolen. At first, the …

Jul 20, 2015 · BGF was founded in San Quentin prison in 1966 by George Jackson, a former member of the Black Panther Party. He was shot to death in prison in 1971 while holding a …

Aug 4, 2023 · In 1979, Fay Stender, a former BGF lawyer who advocated for political prisoners, was shot five times by recently paroled BGF member, Edward Glenn Brooks who said Stender …

The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, the Black Family, the Black Vanguard, and Jamaa) is an African American black power prison gang, street gang, …

Feb 11, 2015 · The BGF is the most ‘politically’ oriented of the major prison gangs. It was formed as a Marxist-Maoist-Leninist revolutionary organization with specific goals to eradicate racism, …