Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Crack had a massive impact on the Black community in the 1980s. It would ...
British actor Damson Idris brings L.A.’s ‘80s crack epidemic to life on ‘Snowfall’ Damson Idris, lead actor of FX’s “Snowfall,” a series about the crack cocaine epidemic in L.A. in the ‘80s, is ...
In the late 1980s, the crack epidemic launched a War on Drugs that disproportionately arrested and punished black Americans. But a generation later, when a new drug scourge struck white communities ...
As an aspiring cocaine dealer in Los Angeles, smart but naïve Franklin Saint has to navigate some nasty bumps. He has no idea about the earthquake that’s about to hit. The poised 19-year-old is at the ...
LOS ANGELES — When British actor Damson Idris auditioned for the role of young street entrepreneur Franklin Saint in FX’s “Snowfall,” a drama set during the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic in ...
Hopefully, this won't start anything too incendiary, or head to the Bad Place but I was thinking about this recently. I wasn't in the country (far less socially aware) at the time when the crack ...
Take away the drugs and the crime, and FX’s gritty ’80s crack epidemic drama Snowfall is a show about choices. Not the gray-area choices of wrong from right, because that’s subjective, but the choices ...
In the late 1980s, the crack epidemic launched a War on Drugs that disproportionately arrested and punished black Americans. But a generation later, when a new drug scourge struck white communities ...
OPINION: De La Soul’s “My Brother’s a Basehead” takes us into the impact of crack on its users and their families. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the ...
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