*FX has ordered a first season of “Snowfall,” a drama series inspired by the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, it was announced today by Eric Schrier and Nick ...

The CIA has been at the center of some of the most controversial and downright illegal schemes in history, but today's insane new video will make you never trust them again. The 1980s crack epidemic ...

A raw and necessary journey inside the reality of crack cocaine use in Switzerland, a growing phenomenon that - which started on the streets of America's great metropolises - is now taking root in ...

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When Gary Webb’s articles about the connection between Nicaraguan drug traffickers, the CIA, and the crack epidemic came out in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco native Sean San José was living ...

In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, reporter Ruben Castaneda wasn’t just covering the crack epidemic for the Washington Post — he was also taking part in it. While reporting on D.C. mayor Marion Barry’s ...

The Hunters Point shooting was a rude awaking for San Francisco, marking a macabre midpoint in the gang wars that plagued the city during the crack epidemic. A story in the Torrance Daily Breeze a ...

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