The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s was met with demonization, mass incarceration and dehumanization of Black crack addicts. The opioid epidemic of today is being met with empathy, understanding ...

On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of ...

OPINION: De La Soul's "My Brother's a Basehead" takes us into the impact of crack on its users and their families. Crack had a massive impact on the Black community in the 1980s. It would be ...

DECATUR - Crack cocaine, a drug that has reached epidemic proportions in many large cities since its introduction in the mid-1980s, has found its way into almost every corner of the nation. While ...

While the group’s leader and co-founder Chuck D was preaching to the Black community to do better, the epidemic had infiltrated Public Enemy. The Public Enemy 1988 song about crack use, “Night of the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to author Donovan X. Ramsey about his new book, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era." It tells the story of the crack cocaine epidemic. One of ...

Drug addiction continues to plague Memphis and the Mid-South. For years, the monster of drug addiction consumed Ben Owen. “I ...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, Washington, D.C., was a city under siege. As with other cities, it descended into near chaos because of the crack epidemic that claimed even innocent lives. Whole ...

These heartbreaking pictures show the horrific decline of a pretty college student who tragically died after losing a battle against heroin addiction. In one of the photos Leanne Johnson is seen ...