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American Gangster is a documentary television series that aired on BET. The show features some of Black America's most infamous and powerful gangsters and organized crime groups. [1] It is narrated by Ving Rhames. The series premiere, on November 28, 2006, amassed around one million viewers.
Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a 2008 documentary by Stacy Peralta that examines the rise of the Crips and Bloods, prominent gangs in America who have been at war with each other. The documentary focuses on the external factors that caused African-American youth to turn to gangs and questions the political and law enforcement response to ...
Pages in category "Documentary films about African-American gangs" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family was released in 2012. The author is Mara Shalhoup, who wrote the first in-depth report on BMF for Creative Loafing in 2006. [30] In 2010, American rapper Rick Ross released the song "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)" with the title's acronym being in reference to the organization's name ...
Grand Theft Auto V (2013) is mostly centered around Black American organized crime, with one of the main protagonists of the game, Franklin Clinton, being part of a Black American gang. Among the antagonists in Watch Dogs (2014) are the Black Viceroys, who were originally a civil-rights group until they turned to crime after their founder was ...
Gangsters: America's Most Evil is a documentary television series that airs on Reelz [1] which profiles notorious criminals whose crimes involve murder, drug trafficking, racketeering, and human trafficking. Most, if not all of, the criminals profiled in this series were either brought to justice by local, state, and federal law enforcement or ...
In the 1999 film Life, musician Rick James plays a Harlem gangster, "Spanky Johnson", who was loosely inspired by Bumpy Johnson. In the 2007 film American Gangster, Johnson is portrayed by Clarence Williams III. In the 2018 Netflix documentary series Drug Lords, Johnson was featured in the third episode of the first season.
The Black Mafia, also known as the Philadelphia Black Mafia (PBM), Black Muslim Mafia and Muslim Mob, was a Philadelphia-based African-American organized crime syndicate. The organization began in the 1960s as a relatively small criminal collective in South Philadelphia, known for holding up neighborhood crap games and dealing in the illegal drug business, but at its height of operation in the ...