Frank Lucas may be Hollywood s man of the moment via Denzel Washington s portrayal of him in the film American Gangster, but the former Harlem drug lord is anything but that, according to the widow of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Here's a guy who was a chess player, a poet, a philanthropist, a murderer and a drug dealer," Forest Whitaker says of the ...

Mayme Hatcher Johnson, the widow of former Harlem underworld boss Bumpy Johnson, died on Friday (May 1). The outspoken Mayme Johnson, 94, died in her Philadelphia home of respiratory failure, ...

“We always look at gangsters like they're not human beings.”- Godfather of Harlem creator Markuann Smith And then Godfather of Harlem came. "With Bumpy Johnson, he has so many layers to him. He’s not ...

Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson was born on October 31, 1905, in Charleston, South Carolina. He was given the nickname “Bumpy” due to an abnormal growth on his head. Johnson landed in Harlem to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harlem stood out like a glittering jewel when America was at war with itself. It became a Mecca for Black people who wanted to ...

The show follows the Harlem gangster as he is released from Alcatraz in 1963 after spending more than a decade behind bars. Oscar Winning actor Forest Whitaker transforms himself into Ellsworth ...

The Epix series stars Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker as the infamous gangster and crime boss Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson. It’s official: Bumpy Johnson will return to the streets of Harlem once ...

Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker becomes gangster Bumpy Johnson in the new Epix series "Godfather of Harlem." The show picks up in 1963 after Johnson was released from serving time in Alcatraz.