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 ...

OPINION: N.W.A.'s song "Dopeman" leads us into a conversation about the world of drug dealers and their influence on the Black community. Before N.W.A, Eazy-E was reportedly in the drug game so he was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stroud is a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. In The Souls of Black Folk, the sociologist W.E.B. DuBois posed a piercing question: “How does it feel to be a problem?” ...