Crack cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made by processing powdered cocaine with baking soda or ammonia. Crack appears as small, off-white, or yellowish rocks, delivering a rapid and intense high.
Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated. Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
In When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era, veteran journalist Donovan X. Ramsey shrewdly disrupts a harmful narrative surrounding the crack epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s. The ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A comprehensive new biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, a memoir on family by the prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen and an exploration of the crack epidemic of the ...
LAist: 'When Crack Was King' follows four people who lived through the drug epidemic
'When Crack Was King' follows four people who lived through the drug epidemic
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey (2023, One World Press, 427 pp., $30 HB) Black journalist Donovan X. Ramsey grew up in Columbus, Ohio, in the ...
In “When Crack Was King,” Donovan X. Ramsey offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws. A man selling crack on ...
Donovan Ramsey discusses his book "When Crack Was King." Life in the United States was blighted by the crack epidemic of the 1980s, which devastated communities and defined a generation. "When Crack ...