The legacy of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, whose story was dramatized in the 2007 narrative feature American Gangster, is the focus of a forthcoming documentary film. The film features interviews with ...
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” ...
From a sharecropper's shack in North Carolina to the top of Harlem's drug trade, Lucas recounts his eventful life in vivid detail. After witnessing his cousin's murder by the Klan in 1936, Lucas began ...
As the federal criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs continues, many parts of his past are being revisited. That includes his father’s friendship with the late gangster, Frank Lucas. Melvin Combs was a ...
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