Black to the Future | Episode 8: The Rock That Hit Our Streets

Oakland, 1969 → Los Angeles, 1985. Wayne's watch throws him 16 years forward — into the crack era. And on a corner in South Central, he finds a face he knows: Ray. The same boy from the Free Breakfast line in 1969… now grown, and caught in the storm. In the mid-1980s, crack cocaine spread through Black neighborhoods across America, starting in cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Miami. In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which punished crack 100 times more harshly than powder cocaine. That law sent a generation of Black men to prison. In 1996, journalist Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series linked LA's crack pipeline to traffickers tied to the CIA-backed Contras, a story that's still debated today. Some truths were never meant to be forgotten. 📖 Want the history they left out of school? Get my book "Black History They Tried To Hide" on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3F248XD #BlackToTheFuture #BlackHistory #CrackEra #BlackFeelings494