Black Organized Crime: From Nicky Barnes & Frank Lucas to Crips & Bloods

[Gangsters Inc.]

United States

New York:

Jumping Bail: How legendary drug kingpin “Black Caesar” Matthews disappeared forever
“American Gangster” Frank Lucas dead at 88
Elusive drug boss Frank Matthews to hit the big screen: From narco billionaire at 28 to mysterious phantom
Sex Money Murder: The violent rise and fall of Bronx gang ingrained in New York underworld’s history
Bloods gangster arrested for organizing murder of Bonanno mobster
Frank Smith, a hitman of the Coney Island-based Rival Impact gang, gunned down rivals in war with Thirty-O Crew
Two United Blood Nation Godfathers guilty of racketeering conspiracy
United Blood Nation Godfather says he is part of “the last ones that God put in power”
New York drug boss Jimmy Rosemond
VIDEO: Bloods gangster talks about doing time with Mafia boss John Gotti i...
Eight Trey Crips gang leader Larry Pagett
How Muhammad Ali took the heavyweight boxing championship belt from...
Bronx gangster who killed rival who held baby daughter in arms gets...
Brooklyn Bloods gang enforcer Shondell "M-Dot" Walker
The criminal history of most wanted terrorist Assata Shakur godmother of slain rap legend 2Pac
VIDEO: Up close and personal as VICE films initiation of Crips gang member in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Hull Street Crew leader Christian John
Bloods gang boss gets 55 years in prison for murder & drug traf...
Schuele Boys Gang associate pleads guilty to selling drugs out of v...
The Gangster Alpo From Spanish Harlem

Supreme: Gangster giant towers over Queens rap
Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff (in prison)
Leroy "Nicky" Barnes (flipped)
American Gangster Myth: The True Story Behind Frank Lucas
Frank Matthews
Vietnam Vet-Turned-Harlem Drug Dealer Pens Memoir
Folk Nation Gang Leader Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
Black Caesar: The Rise of America’s Biggest Kingpin
Former Gangsters Beefing About Books
Bloods Gang Leader Charged With Three Murders
Former Drug Kingpin Ike Atkinson Tells All In New Documentary

New Jersey:

Grape Street Crips member indicted for murder of bystander at 2010 summer cookout
“Corey Hamlet is as smart as any CEO we’ve prosecuted” - Profile: Grape Street Crips leader Corey Hamlet
The South Side Cartel: Newark’s most violent street gang
New Jersey Bloods gang boss pleads guilty to murder, racketeering c...
Sex Money Murder Bloods set leaders admit racketeering, murder cons...
Atlantic City “Dirty Block” Gang enforcer gets life
Atlantic City gang boss gets life in prison for drug conspiracy
Grape Street Crips leader charged with 4 murders, racketeering
Drug boss Rufus Young gets 15 years for selling kilos of heroin
Chili Pimping in Atlantic City

New Orleans:

Fugitive Gangster Disciples leader arrested in New Orleans

Arkansas:

Crips and Bloods hit by major police offensive

Tennessee:

The Big Hen: Regional enforcer of Gangster Disciples gets 30 years in prison
Gangster Disciple holds repo men at gunpoint, takes car back
The Governor of Tennessee: Gangster Disciples boss Byron Montrail Purdy ruled state’s underworld

Philadelphia:

Music label or violent gang? Original Block Hustlaz provided soundtrack while it flooded Philadelphia with drugs
How Muhammad Ali took the heavyweight boxing championship belt from...
Roland Bartlett (dead)

Chicago:

Alleged Chicago gang boss charged with sending funds to ISIS in Syria – other gangsters busted for drugs
President Obama gives Gangster Disciples leader a sentence reduction
1 gang boss dead, 2 agents shot, as FBI busts Black P-Stone Nation
Chicago Vice Lord Nation gang boss dead at 64
Senator Declares War On Gangster Disciples

Rockford:

Rockford’s Black Gangster Disciples boss Karl Fort

Detroit:

Three alleged drug gangsters charged with murder of ex-NFL player i...
Violent Seven Mile Bloods gangsters indicted in Detroit
Detroit gang leader gets 35 years for racketeering
Chester Wheeler Campbell: The 007 of the Detroit Drug Mob

Baltimore:

Members of West Baltimore gang Trained To Go guilty of 9 murders, drug trafficking, witness intimidation
Black Guerilla Family gangster pleads guilty to murder of witness
"Bodie" Barksdale, inspiration for The Wire, dead at 54

Female Drug Boss Jean Brown
Maurice "Peanut" King
Baltimore: A Gangster History

Washington:

Profile: Washington D.C. drug boss Rayful Edmond
The Murder of Fray; A Washington D.C. Street Legend

Cleveland:

Don King: From street thug to street name?
Drug boss Ricks: From selfies in the gym to trafficking heroin

North Carolina:

United Blood Nation gangsters plead guilty to RICO conspiracy involving multiple murders
Prison bars couldn’t stop powerful Bloods Godfathers
Two United Blood Nation Godfathers guilty of racketeering conspiracy
The Blood Life:How robbery led to homicides earning two Blood leaders life in prison
United Blood Nation Godfather says he is part of “the last ones that God put in power”
83 bosses and members of United Blood Nation indicted

Colorado:

US Soldiers Busted in Drug Cartel Murder-For-Hire Plot

California:

Sinaloa Cartel distributor who supplied Crips, Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords for two decades gets 15-year term
California Crip went from selling drugs to funding his own career a...
Drug kingpin “Freeway” Rick Ross: Moving tons of cocaine with a nod of approval from the Reagan White House
Crips gangster cops to racketeering charges, admits robberies &...
West Coast Crips gang boss gets life for drug crimes
Rap mogul Suge Knight shot six times at VMA party
Prison Gangs and the Analogy of Hate
Michael Harris: A Convicted Drug Kingpin Who Gave Denzel His Start on Broadway

Kansas City:

Full-Time Gangsters Part-Time Rappers

Virginia:

Nine Trey Gangsters hitmen held shooting competition to see who’d get highest body count
Operation Goodfellas busts $19 million drug trafficking conspiracy from Mexico to Virginia
Profile of Black P-Stones leader Michael Hopson
Black P-Stones lieutenant gets 30 years in prison for racketeering ...
Major heroin trafficking boss sentenced to 30 years in prison
Armed Imperial Gangsta Bloods drug dealer sentenced to 35 years
37 Bloods gangsters sentenced to over 415 years in prison

Georgia:

Gangster Disciples bosses guilty of racketeering, triple murder in nightclub, murder of witness, and shooting
Operation Bloody Prince

Around the World:

Alleged Jamaican hitman placed on FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for mu...
Right-hand-man of Suriname president's son guilty in U.S. drug case
Convicted drug trafficker becomes head of South American country’s ...
The Jamaican Shower Posse: A Family Business
  Henk Orlando Rommy (Dutch drug boss currently in an American prison)

[Rodolfo Montoya jr]

I would love to read more greats books about Black and Latino gangsters from New York, it's a genre that a lot more should be written about.

[Gangsters Inc.]

I think we will see a lot more books and movies about black and latino organized crime, Rodolfo. Too many interesting stories and characters out there for writers and readers.

[John Ramsey]

All the heroin that landed on the streets of Harlem,the Bronx etc in the 1950s and 60s was largely supplied by the Italian Mafia.In particular the Bonanno capo,then Under Boss Carmine Galante.A horrible little psychopath.He was well known as a  "heroin man".He became filthy rich from the misery of millions.He was basically illiterate with an IQ of about 80.But his cunning and ruthlessness is well documented.The man was a stone cold killer.Back in the 1950s,it is well known that he used to test the purity of his product with what was known as the Black man test.Although I'm sure he had a different name for it!He would snatch an addict off the streets of Harlem or the Bowery,shoot them up with a bag of pure heroin and he would measure the length of time it took for the poor man to die.The shorter the time,the purer the smack.Evil personified.