Marc Levin Director of the new Al Jazeera Documentary “Freeway: Crack in the System”. In the early 80’s crack cocaine made its debut on the streets of South Los Angeles wreaking havoc on an already vulnerable Black community suffering from police repression and economic depression.
From the rise of Freeway Ricky Ross who made his name as a prolific drug dealer, to the connection between the CIA, the Reagan administration, and Nicaraguan drug traffickers, Marc Levin joins us to discuss this under-reported, misrepresented and often ignored chapter of US history.
