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Topic: Crack-cocaine

Members of the Drug Enforcement Administration raided two homes side-by-side, in an assumed illegal marijuana operation, on January 31, 2019 in Commerce City, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Thanks for 50 years of nothing, DEA

Illegal fentanyl is safely handled and contained. (Getty Images/Darwin Brandis)

Fentanyl panic mirrors crack epidemic

Blocks of seized cocaine are presented to the press at a police base in Lima, Peru, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) (AP)

Not yesterday’s cocaine

Laura Ungar - KFF Health News

Ronald Reagan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Reagan's racism was widely known

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transofrming a comunity

Nikhil Swaminathan - Grist

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Tupac's struggle

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - The Conversation

(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Obama's big clemency move

(AP/Reuters/Cliff Owen/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)

"Crack for the Pentagon"

Barack Obama (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Seeing black male humanity

Brittney Cooper

Gawker's ugly crack addiction

Freddie deBoer - Jacobin

Rob Ford: Get back to work

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

Ford admits to smoking crack

Kristen Gwynne - Alternet

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