On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of ...
In the 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a brushfire, and it was a devastating scourge. But it also left a seared trail of media images that were more concocted, ...
Snowfall is not based on a true story but is indeed backed by research on real events that have shaped the narrative, ...
As a young man, freelance writer Kenji Jasper watched the crack epidemic destroy some of the people he grew up with. He discusses the impact of crack cocaine on communities with Farai Chideya. But the ...
“I’ve been all over the country and have interviewed hundreds of people whose lives were touched by crack, but never have I met a ‘crackhead,’” Donovan X. Ramsey writes toward the end of his first ...
“I’ve been all over the country and have interviewed hundreds of people whose lives were touched by crack, but never have I met a ‘crackhead,’” Donovan X. Ramsey writes toward the end of his first ...