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The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, the Black Family, the Black Vanguard, and Jamaa) is an African American black power prison gang, street gang, and political organization founded in 1966 by George Jackson, George "Big Jake" Lewis, and W.L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California.
Dawn Prince-Hughes (born 1964) is an American anthropologist, primatologist, and ethologist.She is the author of several books, including Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days and her memoir Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, and she is the editor of the essay collection Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism.
Harambe ( / həˈrɑːmbeɪ / hə-RAHM-bay; May 27, 1999 – May 28, 2016) was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy visiting the zoo climbed under a fence into an outdoor gorilla enclosure where he was violently grabbed and dragged by Harambe. [3] Fearing for the boy's life, a zoo ...
Earle Leonard Nelson ( né Ferral; May 12, 1897 – January 13, 1928), also known in the media as the Gorilla Man, the Gorilla Killer, and the Dark Strangler, [2] was an American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile, who is considered the first known serial sex murderer of the twentieth century. [3] Born and raised in San Francisco, California ...
Koko (gorilla) Hanabiko " Koko " (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018) was a female western lowland gorilla. Koko was born in San Francisco Zoo, [2] and lived most of her life at The Gorilla Foundation 's preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains. [3] The name "Hanabiko" (花火子), lit. 'fireworks child', is of Japanese origin and is a reference to her ...
Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. [1] The group formed in New York City in 1985, born out of a picket against the Museum of Modern Art the previous year. The core of the group's work is bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater ...
Los Angeles Zoo. / 34.148146; -118.28388. The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens is a 133-acre (54 ha) zoo founded in 1966 and located in Los Angeles, California, United States. The city of Los Angeles owns the zoo, its land and facilities, and the animals.
Magilla Gorilla (voiced by Allan Melvin) is an anthropomorphic western lowland gorilla who spent his time languishing in the front display window of a pet shop run by Melvin Peebles (voiced by Howard Morris in 1964–1965, and Don Messick in 1966-1967), eating bananas and being a drain on the businessman's finances. Mr.