Federal authorities announce sweeping takedown of alleged Mexican Mafia network in Southern California, charging over 40 in Orange County crime ring.

The ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses — “the gangster as tragic hero” — was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed ...

In Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Denzel Washington plays the title character, North Carolina-born Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug kingpin who, back during the Vietnam War, became both ghoulishly ...

*BET+ is set to captivate audiences once again with the return of its gripping original series, “American Gangster: Trap Queens,” premiering the first half of Season 4 this summer. The show, which ...

On May 10, 1924, one of the worst events in history for American civil liberties happened: 29-year-old J. Edgar Hoover assumed the role of director of the then-Bureau of Investigation. Ambitious, ...

*“He represents the real Godfather of Harlem,” said documentary director Legs McNeil (The Uncensored Oral History of Punk) about his new documentary “Pusherman ...

There are too many movies being filmed in New York. Every single movie seems like it's a postcard to go to NYC. Don't get me wrong, New York is a beautiful place that looks like the movie Blade Runner ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from American Gangster: The Mobile Game Set in the Harlem of the 70’s, American Gangster: The Mobile Game takes players deep into the film’s vice-laden setting ...

These are the greatest gangster movies of the 21st century about crime and conflict, and many of them have become modern ...