The Ghetto Brothers were a gang and music group[1] founded in New York City's South Bronx in the late 1960s with the motivation to uplift young Latino and Black men in their community.
Founded in New York City's South Bronx in the late 1960s, the gang eventually spread to much of the Northeastern United States.
[2] Under Benjamin Melendez's leadership, the Ghetto Brothers represented one end of the spectrum in terms of how they treated the women involved with the gang.
New York Daily News columnist Robert Dominguez was the leader of a Ghetto Brothers division in the Bronx when he was a teen.
In the Connecticut prison system, during the 1990s, the Ghetto Brothers and the Savage Nomads joined to form Los Solidos (the Solid Ones), which is now one of the most powerful Puerto Rican gangs in the state.