Sentences with phrase «crack epidemic»

The native New Yorker's snapshots, taken during the height of the city's crack epidemic, will go on display Friday as part of Bushwick Open Studios.

His radical Pop Shop on Lafayette Street, for instance, was a veritable factory for agit - prop art, taking on themes as diverse as Apartheid, the crack epidemic (c.f. «Crack Is Wack»), and AIDS, the disease that prematurely took his life.

First installed by the artist in 1993 in a former firehouse on 141st Street, the piece conveyed both a sober perspective of what the neighborhood had endured — the crack epidemic, urban blight — and also hope for the future.

The game's plot is based on multiple real - world people and events in Miami such as Cuban, Haitian, and Biker gangs, the 1980s crack epidemic, the Mafioso drug lords of Miami, and the dominance of glam metal.

She is a lifetime Watts resident and pit bull owner, who told me that she has endured two riots or uprisings, the crack epidemic that continues to devastate her community.

KILL THE MESSENGER Jeremy Renner plays real - life journalist Gary Webb in this story of a Pulitzer Prize winner's life spiraling out of control as he investigates possible links between the 1980s crack epidemic and the CIA.

At first glance, a John Singleton produced a show about the beginning of the crack epidemic in Los Angles seems promising.

Moonlight, Barry Jenkins's mesmerizing coming - of - age film set against the Miami crack epidemic, prevailed at the 89th annual Academy Awards, winning best picture over frontrunner La La Land, after it briefly lost to La La Land.

Set in Detroit in the 1980s in the height of the crack epidemic, White Boy Rick, centers around the true - life story of Richard Weshe Jr..

The crack epidemic of the Eighties didn't help matters much, nor did the dwindling manufacturing base or an educational system way too willing to graduate functional illiterates.

The box office success of this 1991 drama forced America to view the crack epidemic from a different perspective.

The John Singleton drama series about the rise of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s follows a young street dealer named Franklin Saint (Damson Idris); Mexican wrestler Gustavo «El Oso» Zapata (Sergio Peris - Mencheta); CIA operative Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson); and Lucia Villanueva (Emily Rios), the daughter of a Mexican crime lord.

The John Singleton drama series about the rise of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s follows a young street dealer named Franklin Saint (Damson Idris); Mexican wrestler Gustavo «El Oso» Zapata (Sergio Peris - Mencheta); CIA operative Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson); and Lucia

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

«Not only do we have a growing juvenile detention center in the middle of one of our busiest commercial hubs, but we also have the Vernon C. Bain Center, a relic from the crack epidemic of the 1980's and 1990's,» he said in a statement.

«The way the crack epidemic was handled, it unfairly impacted the African - American community.

Cuomo told residents of opioid addiction - ravaged Staten Island that he considered the present - day heroin epidemic worse than the crack epidemic that tore through predominantly nonwhite New York neighborhoods during the 1980s.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents of opioid addiction - ravaged Staten Island that he considered the present - day heroin epidemic worse than the crack epidemic that tore through predominantly nonwhite New York neighborhoods during the 1980s.

Rabbit is the true story of Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) and her life growing up in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic.

«You & the crack epidemic are the two worst things that's happened to DC.»

The crack epidemic of the mid - to late 1980s was worse, with a death rate reaching almost two per 100,000.

Congress enacted mandatory minimum sentencing laws in response to the 1980s crack epidemic, and many states followed suit with similar laws.

«I was telling them about Bushwick in the»70s and»80s, after the fireward and during the crack epidemics... All these burned buildings became crack houses... That's where we grew up.»

Not exact matches

But most of them took one look at the country's most notorious neighbourhood — gorgeous but crumbling buildings, a crack - cocaine epidemic on top of a heroin problem, mentally ill people living on the streets — and shook their heads.

During the 1990s» crack cocaine and AIDS epidemic, there was a sharp increase of lower - income grandparents who became the primary caregivers of their grandchildren.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- A group representing substance abuse treatment professionals is praising new proposals from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to crack down on the opioid epidemic.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams compares today's opioid epidemic with the crack cocaine scourge of the 1980s.

When the crack cocaine epidemic impacted communities of color in the 1980s and 1990s, people like Marty Golden called for law and order instead of compassion.»

Hawkins supports raising the state minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, indexed to increases in worker productivity, and would crack down on the epidemic of wage theft in the state Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused more than a year to convene a minimum wage board to provide a wage hike to tip workers despite this being part of the wage agreement last year with the legislature.

Hawkins also said he would take action to crack down on the epidemic of wage theft in the state, which is estimated to cost low - income workers just in NYC more than a billion dollars annually.

These, though, have a lot of stretch and are higher - waisted, so I never have plumber's crack, which was a big epidemic in the early aughts.

The good news is that Snowfall, the searing FX drama about the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, does start moving at dazzling speed after a slow, plodding start.

Straight Outta Compton Film Review by Kam Williams Gritty Raptrospective Chronicles Rise and Demise of Legendary Gangsta» Group Back in the Eighties, the CIA began orchestrating the introduction of crack - cocaine to African - American communities all across America, starting with the South Central L.A.. By the middle of the decade, the epidemic had turned Compton into a godforsaken wasteland rife with drug addiction and crime.

I mean, these are the events that have led to the conspiracy theory — which isn't quite so farfetched and is supported by some good evidence, some of which we bear witness to here — that the CIA was actively involved in importing cocaine into the United States in the 1980s, and that the agency's activities were in large part responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic.

This helped fuel the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s.

Because of the crack cocaine epidemic?

Having the right conversation might be a difficult task, but approaching it in a cautious way will open up a much - needed dialogue and help crack down on the epidemic.

Amy Reed's YA novel The Nowhere Girls takes a crack at breaking the silence behind this epidemic.

Then you had the AIDs epidemic — so many kinds of issues going on in New York... drugs... crack... discos... art shows — Studio 54 — I even went to Studio 54, and I'm still alive!

In 2007, Tam curated «Jamaica, Queens Thing,» about the intersection between hip - hop and the crack cocaine epidemic.