How the ‘Crack Baby’ Myth Criminalized Black Women and Destroyed Families
The narrative created robust fears and sensational headlines
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1 min readFeb 23, 2021
“Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy, director Stanley Nelson’s latest documentary, is both a reminder and an eye-opening account of the horrors of crack and the country’s push to criminalize Black people struggling with drug addiction... Drawing from anecdotes from the Black and Brown people impacted by the “war on drugs” and archival footage from the 1980s and ’90s, the doc illustrates the ties…
