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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

There washyperventilating reporting in everything from the New York Times to "Crack Kids"...

There was
hyperventilating reporting in everything from the New York Times to "Crack Kids" in TIME Magazine

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There was hyperventilating reporting
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in everything from the New York Times
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to "Crack Kids" in TIME Magazine.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:53:02
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Genres
documentary, crime, history
Production
Firelight Films

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Movie Summary

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.
And you had headlines such as, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:12
And you had headlines such as,
It's hard to really talk about this, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
It's hard to really talk about this,
Stuff like that actually paraded as real information. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
Stuff like that actually paraded as real information.
And so that played a large role in this notion of "crack babies." - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
And so that played a large role in this notion of "crac...
One hundred thousand crack babies are being born each year. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
One hundred thousand crack babies are being born each year.
A potential horror story as these children reach school age. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
A potential horror story as these children reach school age.
In a few short years, these children may comprise as many as 60 % of students - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
In a few short years, these children may comprise as many as...
In reality, only two to three percent of children born - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
In reality, only two to three percent of children born
The real, kind of, maternal issue - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
The real, kind of, maternal issue
Yet that's what gets sold to the American public, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
Yet that's what gets sold to the American public,
In the lives of Black women - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
In the lives of Black women
I was abandoned by my children's father - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
I was abandoned by my children's father
In my crisis, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
In my crisis,
And he literally turned my case over to the police. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
And he literally turned my case over to the police.
Despite the fact that she was completely honest about her drug problem - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:21
Despite the fact that she was completely honest about her dr...
Last year, a Florida woman was convicted of administering - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
Last year, a Florida woman was convicted of administering
We believe it was the first time a prosecutor - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:13
We believe it was the first time a prosecutor
They had no direct evidence whatsoever - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
They had no direct evidence whatsoever
Despite the myth and scientific misinformation. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
Despite the myth and scientific misinformation.
And my kids went to long-term relative care, out of state. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
And my kids went to long-term relative care, out of state.