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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson was born on October 31, 1905, in Charleston, South Carolina. He was given the nickname “Bumpy” due to an abnormal growth on his head. Johnson landed in Harlem to ...

Nov. 29 (UPI) --Godfather of Harlem will return for a fourth season on MGM+. The streaming service announced in a press release Wednesday that it renewed the crime drama for Season 4. Godfather of ...