The BPSN was originally founded between 1961 and 1963 as the Blackstone Rangers in St. Charles Institution for troubled youth by Jeff Fort and Eugene Hairston for Black youth in the Woodlawn area of South Chicago. By the mid-1960s, when Fort began to lead the organization and changed the name to Black P. Stone Nation, they had become one of the most dangerous and powerful gangs in Chicago. Fort transformed BPS into a black nationalistic group, but still involved the gang in street crime and drugs as well as community development.
BPSN founding member Eugene Hairston was incarcerated on drug charges on June 6, 1966,[4] and Fort was arrested in March 1972 for mismanagement of government grants which totaled $927,000 from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. Fort was released in the early 1980s, but was later re-incarcerated on drug charges. Following meetings during 1986 with Libyan operatives from Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi , Fort was charged with buying weapons to commit terrorist acts on behalf of the Libyan government after he converted to Islam and gave the gang an Islamic doctrine.[5] Today, although Fort (referred to as Caliph Abdul-Malik) continues to have considerable influence over the BPSN from prison, the various Black Stones splinter groups suffer from rampant infighting, as there is no longer a clear leader. Two splinter groups formed among supporters of early BPSN leaders: the Mickey Cobras, who were supporters of Mickey Cogwell and the Titanic Stones, who were supporters of Eugene Hairston. Cogwell and Hairston are now deceased.
During this time (the late 1960's) in Los Angeles there was a dramatic increase in Black nationalist gang activity. As a result of being vulnerable to gang intimidation, a California BPS chapter was never started, and the only groups to become active faced immediate and constant abrasion with rival gangs, such as the Crips. In 1972, T.Rodgers meet with the leaders from Compton decided with the other gang leaders to form the Bloods. Over time the Black P. Stones became one of the largest and more powerful Black gangs in South Central Los Angeles. The BPS in Los Angeles are considered extremely violent, both the Black P. Stones (Jungles) and (City) have notorious reputations. FBI had even launched an investigation campaign, "Operation Stone Cold," infiltrating the gangs' ranks, and arresting many leaders. The BPS Bloods along with other Bloods sets in the California prisons united to organized the United Blood Nation (Not to be confused with the New York prison gang of a similar name.
Black P Stones have a presence throughout some American urban areas. Besides their home base in Chicago, members can be found in Los Angeles, Moreno Valley, New York, Rochester, Sacramento, Springfield, Rockford, Albany, Jackson, Memphis, Denver, Biloxi, Minneapolis,Virginia, Beloit, Wisconsin, Tampa, Florida and Durham, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan
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