The real and complex story of Bumpy Johnson By Paul Lee Special to the Michigan Citizen With the much-anticipated release of American Gangster, the major motion picture starring Oscar winners Denzel Washington as little-known Harlem heroin kingpin Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe as the gumshoe and later prosecutor who brought him down, white-run Hollywood is again displaying its fascination with the subgenre ...

Three photos you never saw By Paul Lee Special to The Michigan Citizen Four months ago, on June 10, 2007, a stringer for the Associated Press (AP) shot a series of photographs during a speech by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at Tehran University in the Islamic Republic of Iran that few people in this nation ever saw — but should have. Ignored Although they were made available through the AP’s worldwide ...

By Kristin Cleage Williams Following is an exceptionally vivid “composite” of entries on the Detroit Rebellion from the private journal of Kristin Cleage Williams, the eldest daughter of Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman (Rev. Albert B. Cleage, Jr.), who was a student at Wayne State University. She kept it during the epochal events from Sunday, July 23, the day that the most destructive uprising in U. S. history up to ...