"I got complacent. Everything was going so well in my life," the 42-year-old said this week. But the spiral of crack addiction led to divorce and him ultimately robbing a bank and a pharmacy. On ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to author Donovan X. Ramsey about his new book, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era." It tells the story of the crack cocaine epidemic. One of ...

“I’ve been all over the country and have interviewed hundreds of people whose lives were touched by crack, but never have I met a ‘crackhead,’” Donovan X. Ramsey writes toward the end of his first ...

My community was in the middle of an invisible war. When people disappear from the neighborhood, I learned, it was because they’d been killed or locked up. Or even worse, they were “on that shit,” ...