Summer School: Nonfiction - Dark Alliance Intro

This is one of those stories that was a "conspiracy theory" .. until it became 'conspiracy fact'.

"The government flooded the Black neighborhood with crack cocaine in the 1980's and 90's"

It's a dark chapter in American history, and it wasn't that long ago.

The conspiracy theory, in the 1980's and the 1990's, was that the government was responsible for flooding the Black Neighborhood with crack cocaine. If you spoke openly of this, you were called all sorts of names. One of the more common ones was "Conspiracy Theorist". The problem was, it was all true. A reporter, Gary Webb, figured out the entire thing. The chain of command, why the CIA was sending drugs into certain areas, which government officials were involved - Webb had it all mapped out and he wrote a series of articles on it. He also wrote a book on it called Dark Alliance.

Today's assignment:

Please watch the following preview for our documentary called "Crack in the System". At one point, Freeway Rick Ross was seeing $1-3 Million dollars ... a day.

After watching the documentary preview,
1) Write one question you have.

2) Write what you want to know more about.