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Frank Lucas, the Harlem drug kingpin immortalized in the 2007 film American Gangster, has died. Lucas, who was residing in New Jersey, died of natural causes on Thursday (May 30).

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Bumpy Johnson’s rise to power will be detailed in a new television series. Forest Whitaker has signed on to executive produce the show.

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The wife of Frank Lucas, the man Denzel Washington played in the movie “American Gangster”, has been arrested for cocaine dealing. Julainna Farrait, a 70-year-old former beauty queen, was arrested by the DEA after they say she tried to sell two kilos of cocaine to undercover agents. She appeared in a court room Thursday to […]

Continuing to struggle during such tough economic times in the United Stated and trying to assist those in Haiti after suffered such tragedy, the country seems to need guidance and reassurance that a better day will come to fruition. On February 26 and 27, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan will be in attendance for the […]

Before North Carolina’s own J. Cole was rapping alongside Wale and premier lyricists like Jay Electronica, Mos Def and Talib Kweli, the young up and comer was trying to find a way to get his foot in the door to enter the music business. With the intent to impress Jay Z, what better way than […]