Stories/Essays: Senseless Streets: mbgang14-01

A gang member shields his candle from the wind and rain outside the National Civil Rights Museum during a candle light vigil to honor victims of violence as part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference event on the eve of Martin Luther King Day. Individuals from the four major black gangs operating in Memphis attended.(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)

A gang member shields his candle from the wind and rain outside the National Civil Rights Museum during a candle light vigil to honor victims of violence as part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference event on the eve of Martin Luther King Day. Individuals from the four major black gangs operating in Memphis attended. 

(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)