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He retooled the Young Lords into a militant advocacy and service organization, modeled after the Black Panthers. Based in ...

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Puerto Rico native and social justice leader José “Cha Cha” Jiménez died at age 76. According to NBC News, his sister Daisy Rodríguez announced the sad news in a Facebook post on January 10. “IT IS ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and Co-Founder of the Rainbow Coalition, has died ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Family and friends of José "Cha Cha" Jimenez will pay their respects after the civil rights figure died last week. "Cha Cha" Jimenez was the founder of the Young Lords in Chicago ...

Jiménez founded the Young Lords Organization at Chicago’s famed Lincoln Park in 1968, as cited by the Library of Congress. Jiménez took what started as a Puerto Rican street gang and ...

FILE - Puerto Rican Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, left, founder of the Young Lords in Chicago-area Puerto Rican group, attends a news conference led by Bobby Rush, deputy defense minister of the ...

In 1968, Jiménez founded the Young Lords Organization at Lincoln Park, one of Chicago's most impoverished neighborhoods. He transformed what was once a Puerto Rican street gang into a political group ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Puerto Rican Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, left, founder of the Young Lords in Chicago-area Puerto Rican group ...