The crack explosion in the mid-1980s spawned millionaire kingpins who waged violent turf wars, along with countless small-time dealers and addicts. The epidemic led to strict laws that swelled the ...

What makes 'Friday' special in the pantheon of Black cinema was that it was one of the first "hood" films of its kind in the ...

Dive into the dark history of the crack epidemic that hit the United States in the early 1980s. Explore its roots in socio-economic struggles, failed policies, and racial disparities.

The winning series — produced as part of a New York Times local investigations fellowship — explores Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis ...

Rayful Edmond III, a drug lord best known for catalyzing a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s, has died. He was 60. According to The New York Times, Edmond’s death was ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The man accused of murdering an NYPD officer in the 1980s is up for a parole hearing this month. David McClary has served 36 years of a maximum life sentence for the murder of ...

James Kelly, Programme Manager at CARP, in the documentary Hope in a Crack Epidemic A Dublin filmmaker’s documentary on the crack cocaine epidemic in Tallaght, has revealed how dealers are ...

The Tube's crime epidemic was laid bare this week after ... she sat on the Tube next to one male as they smoked Class A drug crack cocaine in front of pregnant women. They reported the drug ...

Karl Oakman remembers how crack cocaine was policed decades ago, and he refuses to allow the missteps that still echo to be repeated with the latest drug epidemic. “We understood early that we ...