American Gangster, an epic crime movie starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, and directed by Ridley Scott, tells the compelling true story of Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas, leading many ...

Director Legs McNeil's feature 'Pusherman,' centering on the figure memorably played by Denzel Washington, is set for home release this summer. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter The ...

Denzel Washington plays a 1970's drug lord named Frank Lucas in American Gangster. Lucas takes pride in many things, but most of all in the quality of his merchandise, Southeast Asian heroin as pure, ...

“I thought it was entertaining, but it wasn't true,” says the doc maker of the 2007 film starring Denzel Washington. By Steve Bloom The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York ...

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” ...