It's been over ten years since Big was killed. I grieved for him for a very long time. And then, as time passed, the icy wall of grief surrounding my heart began to thaw and I began to heal. I remarr
A former heroin dealer and Harlem crime boss whose life inspired the 2007 film "American Gangster" describes his illicit training by an old-world Mafioso and his successful smuggling operation before
When Wayne Lampkin, a state correctional officer and former Marine, came into Valli Barnes life in the fall of 1982, he was a 33-year-old man with a step-son, three children from a previous marriage,