Gilbert Cruz is joined by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, who talks about his novel “Crook Manifesto,” which picks up the tale of furniture salesman and sometime crook Ray Carney, and ...
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Wife of 70s Harlem Kingpin Arrested by DEA in Puerto Rico; Husband Inspired Film “American Gangster”
This time it’s no movie. The DEA last week arrested the wife of a 1970s Harlem heroin dealer Frank Lucas, who inspired the Denzel Washington film “American Gangster”, for trying to sell two kilos of ...
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