Almighty Black P. Stone Nation

Black P. Stones

Founded by	Jeff Fort and Eugene Hairston
Founding location	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Years active	1959-present
Territory	Nationwide
Ethnicity	African American
Membership	12,000+
Criminal activities	Drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, murder
Allies	Vice Lords, Latin Kings, and other People Nation gangs
Rivals	Gangster Disciples, Black Disciples, Folk Nation and White supremacist groups

The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation (often abbreviated BPSN or BPS) the A.B.P.S.N is a black Chicago-based Street Gang estimated to have more than 42,000 gang members. The gang was originally formed in the late 1950s as the Blackstone Rangers as a civil rights organization. In later years, a quasi-Islamic faction of the gang emerged, naming themselves the El Rukn tribe of the Moorish Science Temple in America (or simply El Rukns), under their 'religious leader' and Blackstone Rangers founder Abdullah-Malik (born Jeff Fort). The BPSN has managed to finance itself through a wide array of criminal activities and are also part of the large Chicago-based gang alliance known as the People Nation.

The Black P. Stones originated, and is based, in the South Side of Chicago in the Woodlawn neighborhood. Their main rivals are the Gangster Disciples aka G.D.N., and to a lesser degree, the Black Disciples aka B.D.N. They are rivals to all Folk Nation gangs, white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Brotherhood, and white power skinheads. Their allies are the Vice Lords, Latin Kings and other People Nation Gangs, Black Separatist Groups, Zulu Nation and Five Percenters. There are 7 BPS branches in Chicago: Gangster Stones, Jet Black Stones, Rubinite Stones, Familia Stones, Puerto Rican Stones, Corner Stones, and Black P. Stones. All these branches have many factions.

Locations

Black P Stones have a heavy presence and strongholds throughout many American urban areas. Besides their home base in Chicago, members can be found in Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Moreno Valley, New York, Rochester, Sacramento, Springfield, Peoria, Albany, Jackson, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Baltimore, Birmingham, Cleveland, Memphis, Newark, Oakland, Denver, Fargo, Biloxi, Mobile, Phoenix, Boston,Louisiana,Little Rock, St.Louis,Minneapolis and Maryland bloomington IL Dyersburg,Tennesee

History

The ABPSN was originally founded in 1958 as the Black Stone Rangers in St. Charles Institution for troubled youth by Jeff Fort and Eugene Hairston as a community organization for Black youth in the Woodlawn area of South Chicago to fight against White street gangs. In the 1960s, they became one of the most dangerous and powerful gangs in Chicago. Jeff began to lead the gang thus, changing the name to Black P. Stone Nation. He transformed BPS into a black nationalistic group, but still involved the gang in street crime and drugs. BPSN founding member Eugene Hairston was incarcerated on drug charges on June 6, 1966, and Fort was arrested for mismanagement of government grants which totaled $927,000 from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity in March 1972. 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. This was not the earliest charge of Islamic terrorism in the United States coming 9 years after the Hanafi Muslim takeover of the Bnai Brith offices in Washington D.C. on March 9, 1977. 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. There are also two groups who have separated from the BPSN:Mickey Cobras who were supporters of Mickey Cogwell who was a co-founder of BPS but was killed by Jeff Fort and the Titanic Stones who were supporters of Eugene Hairston who was also a BPS founder but was starting to have problems with Jeff Fort.

Islamic identification

There is a strong Islamic foundation within the Black P. Stone Nation which can be attributed to the Moorish Science Temple of America and mainstream Sunni Islam. BPS first started to embrace Islam in the late 1970s when Jeff Fort was released from prison. Jeff Fort changed his name to Khalifa Abdullah Malik, then converted Black P. Stone to El Rukn. El Rukn adopted their Islamic principles from the Moorish Science Temple of America which was the forerunner of Black Muslim groups such as the Nation of Islam and the Five Percenters. They also drew a lot of influences from traditional Sunni Islam. They also were greatly inspired by the historic Black African Moors who came from Northern and Western Africa and conquered Iberia in the Middle Ages whom were strict Muslims. That is why they are called Moes as a tribute to their Moorish heritage. Even though, Jeff Fort and El Rukn created the Islamic base for BPS, nowadays, it is not as solid. Although a significant amount of Stones are Muslims, however, are gangbangers. With a lot of sets branched out across America, many don't embrace the Islamic principles. Many Chicago based and influenced BPS in the Midwest, on the East, and in the South embrace Islamic doctrines, but a lot don't especially BPS Bloods/Black Stone West. BPS Bloods/Black Stone West does not embrace Islam because during the time that they were started in 1969, BPS in Chicago were not even thinking about Islam. Also when Jeff Fort started El Rukn he only limited it to Black P. Stones in Chicago. But a few have accepted Islam, but very few have accepted the Islamic dotrines of El Rukn like the founder of Black Stone West; T. Rodgers. Black Stone West are not the only BPS set who mostly don't accept Islam. Jeff Fort was not the only leader of BPS, there was also Eugene "Bull" Hairston who was mostly fascinated with organized crime and gangbanging not Islam, black separatism, and politics like Jeff Fort. When Jeff Fort formed El Rukn, a lot members left with Hairston and became renegades. Thus a few sets like the Titanic Stones who supports Hairston don't embrace Islam. The acceptance of Islam is not just confined to BPS sets but to individual members. For example, most Stones in the South don't personally acknowledge Islam, but many on the East does, and in Chicago, more than a quarter of BPS are Muslims and the rest just simply study it whereas most BPS members in California pay very little to none attention to Islam. But Islam has also brought a lot of negative attention from the Federal Government and Law Enforcement to BPS because of their ties to domestic and international Islamic terrorism. There were declared a threat to homeland security after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Even though El Rukn is nearly inactive on the streets,however, the religious political body of the BPSN now exists as the Masjid Al Kabah under Jeff Fort and his Islamic clergy.

BPS Bloods

The only two main types of BPS, the Moorish Islamic Chicago based People Nation mob and the Renegade type BPS sets that they consider renegades because they don't go by the Jeff They still go by Eugene and Mickey Cogwell original ways but many talks are in progress. Although some people believe that BPS Bloods is Stones that is not true. It all started in 1969, when T.Rodgers, moved with his family to the West Adams/Mid City area of West Los Angeles. During this time in Los Angeles there was a dramatic increase in Black street gang activity after the fall of the Black Power due to the tactics of the Federal Government and law enforcement. As a result of being vulnerable to gang intimidation, T. Rodgers never contact Jeff Fort and the Main 21 (The leadership council of BPS) so he could get permission to start a chapter of BPS in California and it was never approved. They first started as an honest young community organization that defended their community from violent street gangs such as the Crips but, soon as they began to gain a reputation as righteous defenders of their neighborhood, they started warring with Crip sets like the Westside Crips, Rollin'30s Harlem Crips and the Hoover Crips. At the time other gangs were fighting Crips such as Pirus, Brims, Denver Lanes, Athens Park, Bounty Hunters, Mad Swans and others. 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 consists of mainly the Black P. Stones(Bity)and Black P. Stones (Jungles) but all affiliate groups of the Black P. Stone Nation in California are considered extremely violent, especially the Black P. Stones (Jungles).FBI had even launched an investigation called "Operation Stone Cold" where they arrested the leaders of the gang. They are called BPS Bloods, Black Peace Stones, Black Stone Bloods, Blood Stones, and Black Stone West. Their rivals are most Crip sets, 18th Street, Mara Salvatrucha 13 and a few other Sureno gangs that have hatred for Blacks. 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 that created the East Coast Bloods in 1993)and the United Blood Line that are allied to the Black Guerilla Family in the late 1980s.

BPS In Other Areas Of The U.S.

BPS East

In 1998, A Black Muslim participant named Abdullah Geebil in the R.E.D. Family movement within the BPS, founded BPS East along with twenty others in New York. These men under Geebil's leadership convinced other Black gang members, particularly the East Coast Bloods to join BPS. BPS East(R.E.D. Family Stones)The purpose was to destroy the u.b.n which was the the New York gang that took the five from the stones but it was already five long yers since the u.b.n started, and it was and still a strong movement the stones in Chicago were aware, but they knew killing others was not going to do any good, so they merged with the movement. The first set was started in the Bronx; it was called bps east. The second set was bps bulls. Others where G.B.S [gangster.briminal.stones] holy rose stones and A.G.S (Almighty Gangster Stones) at first they were just stones, but since the first recruits where bloods [ubn] they were still reppin blood, so some sets sported the blood name while other stood almighty but in New York the blood alliance is split into nations ubn [eastside blood sets] [independent sets which are west coast born sets] then the nybba [westside and eastside brim sets united [new .york .brim .blood .army and last is the a.b.p.s.n which consist of sets who are blood affiliated and stones who are Chicago like moes since 1998 the stones have a large presents in the city recognized as bloods do to relationships in families or hoods the stones just like the blood of New York do not gang bang but are a steady movement of brothers that stay in peace unless one disrepects they are enemies to the crips all folk nation gangs few ubn blood sets ddp trinitaios and other white hate groups the bps bloods of New York are considered the most powerful gangs sporting the five do to the fact that the five started in the chi from the moes who aligned others gangs like Latin kings and vicelords to form the people nation [five nation] it was a man from the Bronx that mixed the five with the bloods he thought stones were bloods from cali; he was wrong but he only stole the five of the peoples in the chi and added his own meanings for the ubn movement=== BPS South ===

Most people do not know about BPS in the South, but it has been around for nearly 30 years. BPS South was started in the early to mid-1980s thus meaning that it is older than BPS East and more than ten years younger than BPS West. It was a major Black street gang from out of state to migrate to the South. The first state that BPS migrated to was Mississippi which is the gang's founder, Jeff Fort's birthplace. Also the South in the late 1980s to the early 1990s began to experience a second wave of BPS migration coming from the California based BPS Bloods. Today, BPS South is basically a mixture of both Chicago based/original ABPSN sets (El Rukn, R.E.D. Family, Gangster Stones, Jet Black Stones, PR Stones,etc.) and California based/ BPS Bloods sets (Black Stone Bloods, Blood Stones, etc.). In the South, however, a lot of members of BPS are either Bloods or Vice Lords as well as being BPS. Most however are just BPS. The reasons why some are Bloods is that many sets are California based/BPS Bloods sets. The reason why some are Vice Lords is because of the Vice Lords' larger numbers in the prisons and in the streets, and they both wear red and black also, But to truly be stone you must be stone and only stone, and you must stand for your five points at all times. Stone is a large group and holds a lot of turf so there is no need to turn to the other side in order to maintain your respect that is why they all war with each other; the Chicago-based sets war with the Blood Sets.

Chicago and New York Gangs Merged

Vampires, aka the Blood Gang, an Original New York gang from the 1950"s that represents the Five Boroughs of New York traveled to Chicago and merged with the Puerto Rican Stones & made a Renegade set known as Pura Sangre Stones (Pure Blood Stones) and eventually called themselves Latin Stones they are a Hybrid gang they were made right after the New York Gang Egyptian Kings merged with the Mickey Cobras to make Egyptian King Cobras stones these gangs form the Renegade Stones all together because of Cogwells death and Haristons death they dont use the religion doctrines they are based on the original Traditions of original NYC and Chicago gang culture

Gang Identification

Chicago Influenced

• Colors
  • red
  • black

• Symbols:
  • Pyramid
  • Crescent moon
  • # 7
  • 5 pointed star
  • Eye

• Handsigns:
  • the open hand the (five)
  • Pyramid
  • Black Power

• Clothing
  • Hats to the Leftside

California Influenced

• Colors
  • Red and Black
  • Green

• Symbols
  • Letter B
  • Pyramid
  • Bulldog

• Hand Signs
  • Blood spelled out with their hands
  • Black power salute
  • B Sign

• Clothing
  • Bandanas to the Rightside