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Yellow Brotherhood (YB) Yellow Brotherhood was an Japanese American youth support organization formed in 1969, after the Japanese American community of Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles, had been rocked by drug overdoses. The group was a militant political organization similar to the Black Panthers and had membership from a street gang known as the Ministers, ex-servicemen, and other “misfits”.

YB eventuanly bought a house on Crenshaw which served as a community center for the movement, and shifted the focus towards drug prevention through education, parent groups, sports programs and trips to Manzanar, site of one of the Japanese American internment camps during WWII.

The YB sold the house in 1975 with the neighborhood changing and leaders growing older and pursuing careers. In the 1980's some members formed a youth basketball team consisting of their children known as the Venice YB. One of the participants Tadashi Nakamura made a short personal documentary Yellow Brotherhood (2003) about his experience and the YB community which supported him.