Party Crews: The Untold Story
- Society & Culture · Documentary
- True Crime
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For many Latinx kids in the ‘00s, the party crew scene was a safe space to express themselves as they came of age in the grit and glitter of Los Angeles. A space to make friends, forget about your problems and dance the night away. But the scene wasn’t always physically safe. There were shootings and police raids. Many adults saw the scene as gang-adjacent and the media fueled negative stereotypes of kids who were out of control. One of the teens who got caught in that easy narrative was Emmery Muñoz, after she was murdered in 2006. Host Janic...
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Recent episodes
- Introducing: My Friend Daisy
- Bonus: Eddie Ruvalcaba on Capturing Party Crew Life
- Bonus: Carribean Fragoza on Writing “The Vicious Ladies”
- Ep. 8 Safe Space
- Ep. 7 Desahogar
- Ep. 6 Searching for Digital Traces
- Ep. 5 Cat & Mouse
- Ep. 4 Anatomy of a Party
- Ep. 3 The Investigation
- Ep. 2 Welcome to the Party