Twenty years ago the nation faced a new drug scourge: crack cocaine. With it came thousands of children born to addicted mothers and labeled "crack babies." When the drug first hit the streets of New ...
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 ...