Ep. 276 How We Keep Each Other Alive with Donovan X. Ramsey
The Stacks
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The Rise and Fall of the Crack Epidemic
Hip hop artists were rapping about the dangers of crack and drug use as early as 1982. Mainstream media didn't start focusing on crack until 1987. Spike Lee with movies like Jungle Fever, you have crack addict characters in movies like Minnesot Society. "I got a new respect for hip hop in black media from reporting this book"
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