The Young Lords, as transformed by Jiménez into an activist organization, found a purpose in particular as the Puerto Rican community was being pushed out of Lincoln Park in the late 60s.

A five-needle procedure for the upper ear dates back to the 1970s when the Young Lords and the Black Panthers used it to treat anxiety, trauma and cravings. A West Side lawmaker wants to promote ...

The Young Lords organized and fought against several injustices, especially gentrification. A new "Chicago Stories" documentary outlines their entire story. Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices is ...

José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, human rights activist and former chair of Young Lords, dead at 76 Mr. Jiménez spent much of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s fighting gentrification in Lincoln Park ...

Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, center, the leader of the Young Lords organization, gets an enthusiastic reception as he turns himself in to the Chicago police at the Town Hall district on Dec. 6 ...

ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch "Cha Cha" Jimenez was the founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition.

He retooled the Young Lords into a militant advocacy and service organization, modeled after the Black Panthers. Based in Chicago, it had chapters nationwide. By Clay Risen When Democrats met that ...

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. He was 76. His ...

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The founder of the Young Lords Organization died Friday, Jan. 10. José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, the renowned civil rights activist and founder of the Puerto Rican civil rights group Young Lords ...

José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, human rights activist and former chair of Young Lords, dead at 76 Mr. Jiménez spent much of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s fighting gentrification in Lincoln Park ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, left, founder of the Young Lords in Chicago, attends a news conference led by Bobby L. Rush, deputy defense minister of the Illinois Black Panther Party, in 1969.