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" ...
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 ...