The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York in the 1970s sparked Richard Nixon's War of Drugs. The goal was to "associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin" ...

The former agents and detectives say they were libeled by drug lord Frank Lucas. October 23, 2008— -- Nine former Drug Enforcement Administration agents and three former New York City detectives ...

*“He represents the real Godfather of Harlem,” said documentary director Legs McNeil (The Uncensored Oral History of Punk) about his new documentary “Pusherman ...

In Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Denzel Washington plays the title character, North Carolina-born Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug kingpin who, back during the Vietnam War, became both ghoulishly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York in the 1970s sparked Richard Nixon’s War of Drugs. The goal ...

American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem ...

“I thought it was entertaining, but it wasn't true,” says the doc maker of the 2007 film starring Denzel Washington. By Steve Bloom The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York ...