Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible
Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible
Filed under: The Facts About Crack Cocaine
A black father makes his little girl crack open a crab with her bare hands then flex her tiny muscles like a pint-size N.F.L. linebacker. A black pilot snorts a line of cocaine after a night of debauchery and, just a few minutes before liftoff, knocks … Read more on New York Times
Herhold: Thinking back on journalist Gary Webb and the CIA
Filed under: The Facts About Crack Cocaine
When facts didn't fit his theory, he tended to shove them to the sidelines. All that meant that Webb needed — no, demanded — wise and meticulous editing. In "Dark Alliance,'' the 1996 Mercury News series about the CIA and crack cocaine, he did not … Read more on San Jose Mercury News
Movie review: Shadows of Liberty
Filed under: The Facts About Crack Cocaine
In fact, when this movie opens with a history of the 1990s CBS News investigation into Nike manufacturing plants in Asia, reporter Roberta Baskin says she never felt controlled or silenced by her corporate owners — until she exposed sweat shop sub … Read more on Canada.com