The legacy of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, whose story was dramatized in the 2007 narrative feature American Gangster, is the focus of a forthcoming documentary film. The film features interviews with ...

Josh Brolin once opened up about a tense moment he had with Denzel Washington while filming the 2007 movie American Gangster.

The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York in the 1970s sparked Richard Nixon’s War of Drugs. The goal was to “associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin” ...

New Documentary explores Frank Lucas, Black Gangster Lore, and the True Cost of Power NEW YORK, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The name Frank Lucas is legend—kingpin, hustler, mastermind. Harlem's most ...

Josh Brolin and Denzel Washington have both been stars in Hollywood for decades, and 2007’s American Gangster brought them together as part of one of the most impressive ensembles of the 21st century.

‘‘American Gangster’s’’ two adversaries, drug kingpin Lucas (Washington) and Richie Roberts, the cop who becomes his ‘‘Les Mis erables’’-type nemesis (Crowe), also can be seen as two sides of the same ...

“American Gangster” opened last weekend and many of those who bought tickets — $43.6 million worth from Friday through Sunday — surely came away feeling as Mark Twain did when he said his memory was ...

(CNN) — As the federal criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs continues, many parts of his past are being revisited. That includes his father’s friendship with the late gangster, Frank Lucas. Melvin ...

Josh Brolin revealed that things once got tense between him and Denzel Washington while filming American Gangster. During an ...