When Crack Was King

Author : Donovan X. Ramsey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525511816

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When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic “A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.”—The Washington Post “A poignant and compelling re-examination of a tragic era in America history . . . insightful . . . and deeply moving.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND VULTURE’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, She Reads, Electric Lit, The Mary Sue The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan’s war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey’s exacting analysis traces the path from the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement to the devastating realities we live with today: a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration and gentrification, and increased police brutality. When Crack Was King follows four individuals to give us a startling portrait of crack’s destruction and devastating legacy: Elgin Swift, an archetype of American industry and ambition and the son of a crack-addicted father who turned their home into a “crack house”; Lennie Woodley, a former crack addict and sex worker; Kurt Schmoke, the longtime mayor of Baltimore and an early advocate of decriminalization; and Shawn McCray, community activist, basketball prodigy, and a founding member of the Zoo Crew, Newark’s most legendary group of drug traffickers. Weaving together riveting research with the voices of survivors, When Crack Was King is a crucial reevaluation of the era and a powerful argument for providing historically violated communities with the resources they deserve.

Author : David Farber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108606394

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Crack by David Farber Pdf

The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.

Author : David Farber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425278

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Crack by David Farber Pdf

The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of Donovan Ramsey's When Crack Was King by Milkyway Media Pdf

Get the Summary of Donovan Ramsey's When Crack Was King in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "When Crack Was King" by Donovan Ramsey offers a multifaceted exploration of the crack epidemic's impact on the Black community. Through personal stories, Ramsey illustrates the profound effects of the drug on individuals and society. Elgin Swift's transformation from a troubled youth in Yonkers to a successful car salesman and investor contrasts with his PTSD and fear of poverty. Miss Woodley's journey from a three-decade crack addiction to becoming a substance abuse counselor exemplifies the potential for recovery...

Author : Jason Sokol
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541697393

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The Heavens Might Crack by Jason Sokol Pdf

A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassination On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing figure--scorned by many white Americans, worshipped by some African Americans and liberal whites, and deemed irrelevant by many black youth. In The Heavens Might Crack, historian Jason Sokol traces the diverse responses, both in America and throughout the world, to King's death. Whether celebrating or mourning, most agreed that the final flicker of hope for a multiracial America had been extinguished. A deeply moving account of a country coming to terms with an act of shocking violence, The Heavens Might Crack is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand America's fraught racial past and present.

Author : H. M. Bouwman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399545207

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A Crack in the Sea by H. M. Bouwman Pdf

An enchanting historical fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Thanhha Lai's Newbery Honor-winning Inside Out and Back Again No one comes to the Second World on purpose. The doorway between worlds opens only when least expected. The Raft King is desperate to change that by finding the doorway that will finally take him and the people of Raftworld back home. To do it, he needs Pip, a young boy with an incredible gift—he can speak to fish; and the Raft King is not above kidnapping to get what he wants. Pip’s sister Kinchen, though, is determined to rescue her brother and foil the Raft King’s plans. This is but the first of three extraordinary stories that collide on the high seas of the Second World. The second story takes us back to the beginning: Venus and Swimmer are twins captured aboard a slave ship bound for Jamaica in 1781. They save themselves and others from a life of enslavement with a risky, magical plan—one that leads them from the shark-infested waters of the first world to the second. Pip and Kinchen will hear all about them before their own story is said and done. So will Thanh and his sister Sang, who we meet in 1978 on a small boat as they try to escape post-war Vietnam. But after a storm and a pirate attack, they’re not sure they’ll ever see shore again. What brings these three sets of siblings together on an adventure of a lifetime is a little magic, helpful sea monsters and that very special portal, A Crack in the Sea.

Author : Gary Webb
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781609802028

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Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Pdf

Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.

Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617754340

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Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Set (Akashic Noir) by Dennis Lehane Pdf

Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Set combines all twenty-five stories from best seller Boston Noir. "Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys. [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has left people feeling crushed." --New York Times, on Boston Noir "The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of Milltown resentment and pampered preppies." --Boston Globe, on Boston Noir 2: The Classics Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Set combines all twenty-five stories from best seller Boston Noir, edited by Dennis Lehane, and its sequel, Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Lehane, Mary Cotton & Jaime Clarke; featuring Lehane's own "Animal Rescue," the basis for the motion picture The Drop, and twenty-four classic noir stories set throughout Boston.

Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007580926

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One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines, 1800-1934 by United States. Marine Corps Pdf

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501156779

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Four Past Midnight by Stephen King Pdf

Four novellas about horror in the late night hours.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476767284

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Under the Dome: Part 2 by Stephen King Pdf

The conclusion to King's tale of Chester's Mill, Maine, a town that's inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field, and which inspired a CBS TV drama.

Author : Ty Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 0998441910

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80's Baby by Ty Marshall Pdf

By the beginning of the 1980's, the Bronx had become a godforsaken slum, making it the ideal location for an epidemic. That epidemic arrived in the form of crack cocaine, which hit the streets with a savage force setting off an explosion of violent crime unlike anything ever seen before. The birth of crack brought with it more money, more guns and more gangs. The faces of which were younger, hungrier and more vicious than their predecessors.In 1986, Hassan, a student of the streets put those lessons to work, ascending above all other ghetto dons and planting his flag at the top of the drug game. After successfully merging the North and Southside, Hassan ceases control of the largest projects in The Bronx, The Edenwald Houses. With maximum power and unlimited resources he and his crew reign supreme over the crack trade. But what crack giveth, crack taketh away as jealousy, rival crews and the federal government began chipping away at his once mighty empire. Enter Rhae, a beautiful, around the way girl, raised in the same unforgiven streets. After falling in love with Hassan, she tries convincing him to leave the game behind. But old habits die hard and the allure is stronger than either of them could imagine proving to be easier said than done.

Author : Gregor Robinson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459710047

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The Dream King by Gregor Robinson Pdf

With exceptional power, Robinson exposes both the gravity and levity of relationships — formed in duty, in fear, in need — and the subtle ways we attempt to escape their persistent pull. At turns humourous, chilling and tender, Robinson’s fiction displays a versatility in tone and subject that mirrors the stories of our lives, real or imagined, domestic or exotic. His writing elevates the "What If?" to new imaginary heights.

Author : Tom Mount
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781468573978

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I Married a Crack Head by Tom Mount Pdf

What's it like to be married to a drug addict? What should you do if you think your spouse is addicted to crack cocaine? What is crack cocaine? Having been raised during the 50s and 60s, the author had little exposure to drugs except alcohol. Then, through the eyes of his younger wife ..., he got the education he never had previously. ... His world was falling apart from a substance he knew nothing about.--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Alana Benson
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508179566

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Crack and Cocaine Abuse by Alana Benson Pdf

Few drugs have as many cultural and social implications as cocaine and crack. These drugs link Hollywood and Detroit, and are signifiers of classic rock icons and racial inequality. How have these drugs shaped the world we live in? How do they shape lives today? How can addictions to these drugs be overcome? Cocaine and crack are highly addictive and can cause severe health problems, but there are ways to get support and treatment. This book offers the support readers need in order to seek treatment for themselves and their loved ones.