Drug addiction has plagued the Black community for decades, and with the rise of fentanyl in recent years, Black people ...

Rayful Edmond III, a drug lord best known for catalyzing a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, has died ...

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Former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose dealing fueled the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C. died Tuesday, months after being released from prison. He was 60. Edmond, when he was 25 ...

Some even credit the notorious Edmond for igniting the crack epidemic that contributed to the nation’s capital being dubbed the murder capital of America. 7News' former D.C. Bureau Chief Sam ...

The migration of fentanyl into illicit stimulants such as cocaine is especially dangerous for people who are not regular ...

He later became an informant. By Isabella Kwai Rayful Edmond, a drug kingpin who stoked a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s and later cooperated with prosecutors to bring ...

Edmond is believed to have controlled about a third of the cocaine trade in Washington DC during the crack epidemic. Once he arrived in prison at age 25, Edmond continued running his drug business ...

Rayful Edmond III, a onetime drug kingpin who spent more of his life in prison than out of it for his role fueling the District’s murderous crack cocaine epidemic, died suddenly Tuesday within a ...

In the height of the crack epidemic of the 1980s, young Black men fell victim to deadly overdoses at higher rates than any other ethnic group. Forty years later in 2024, the group with the highest ...

Former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose dealing fueled the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C. died Tuesday, months after being released from prison. He was 60. Edmond, when he was 25 ...