Frank Lucas may be Hollywood s man of the moment via Denzel Washington s portrayal of him in the film American Gangster, but the former Harlem drug lord is anything but that, according to the widow of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Here's a guy who was a chess player, a poet, a philanthropist, a murderer and a drug dealer," Forest Whitaker says of the ...

Mayme Hatcher Johnson, the widow of former Harlem underworld boss Bumpy Johnson, died on Friday (May 1). The outspoken Mayme Johnson, 94, died in her Philadelphia home of respiratory failure, ...

“We always look at gangsters like they're not human beings.”- Godfather of Harlem creator Markuann Smith And then Godfather of Harlem came. "With Bumpy Johnson, he has so many layers to him. He’s not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harlem stood out like a glittering jewel when America was at war with itself. It became a Mecca for Black people who wanted to ...

Tomorrow, Prodigy will give us the premiere of his first full-length project (an EP, rather) titled The Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson EP since being incarcerated for three years on gun possession. The ...

Starring Forest Whitaker, the 1960s-set series is inspired by the real-life story of infamous crime boss Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. Within a few minutes into the first episode, a fearless and armed ...

“Bumpy Johnson is gonna be dead by the end of the day.” Can we get that in writing, please? Epix has released the first teaser for Season 2 of its period crime drama Godfather of Harlem and set its ...

A Harlem shoeshine man, sitting at the feet of Ellsworth (Bumpy) Johnson and watching Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Malcolm X argue nearby, exclaims, ‘‘I just love seeing those silver-tongued Negroes go ...

The show follows the Harlem gangster as he is released from Alcatraz in 1963 after spending more than a decade behind bars. Oscar Winning actor Forest Whitaker transforms himself into Ellsworth ...

The Epix series stars Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker as the infamous gangster and crime boss Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson. It’s official: Bumpy Johnson will return to the streets of Harlem once ...

A Black teenager gets shot dead by a policeman, opioids wreak havoc and the U.S. government flounders in the face of a divided nation. The year is 1964. The show is “Godfather of Harlem.” And the ...