Los Angeles is launching a new task force to combat the unprecedented rise of organized retail crime thefts across the region, including a recent “flash-rob”-style incident where more than 30 ...

In When Crack Was ... four of the epidemic’s survivors: Lennie Woodley, a former addict of nearly 30 years who is now a beloved addiction and substance abuse counselor in South Los Angeles ...

Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine that had been ... in Oakland and in Los Angeles. Look, I'm a kid of the '80s. I remember so much of that messaging.

Dive into the dark history of the crack epidemic that hit the United States in the early 1980s. Explore its roots in ...

One of the most confounding legacies of the crack epidemic is that everyone has heard of crack ... Lennie Woodley grew up amid trauma and abuse in Los Angeles and turned to sex work at an early age to ...

at 9 p.m. ET/PT on A&E Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty The Grim Sleeper serial killings of young Black women began in the 1980s in South Los Angeles when the crack epidemic was raging. The victims ...

In “When Crack Was ... of the crack epidemic over a span of almost 60 years. One, Lennie Woodley, was sexually abused from the age of 7 by an uncle in South Central Los Angeles, an area ...

Ramsey explains how documenting the history of the drug war is a “community project” and looks back on 1990s rap music's anti-crack hits ... counselor in South Los Angeles; Kurt Schmoke ...

Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine that had been seized in a park ... And a lot of it ended up in cities on the West Coast, in Oakland and in Los Angeles. On ...

Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine that had been ... in Oakland and in Los Angeles. On how the anti-drug campaign spearheaded by Ronald and Nancy Reagan ...