{"id":1013916,"date":"2021-05-22T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/crack-cocaine-corruption-conspiracy-exposes-the-truth-about-the-war-on-drugs-kalw\/"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:59:51","slug":"crack-cocaine-corruption-conspiracy-exposes-the-truth-about-the-war-on-drugs-kalw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/war-on-drugs\/crack-cocaine-corruption-conspiracy-exposes-the-truth-about-the-war-on-drugs-kalw\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Crack: Cocaine, Corruption &amp; Conspiracy&#8217; Exposes The Truth About The War On Drugs &#8211; KALW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>On this edition of Your Call, we rebroadcast our conversation with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson about his new Netflix documentary, Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy. Nelson looks back on how the crack epidemic of the early 1980s decimated Black and Brown communities.<\/p>\n<p>The epidemic fueled racial and economic inequality, hyper-aggressive policing, mass incarceration, and government corruption at the highest levels. Nelson says we need to expose the truth about the past in order to change policies.<\/p>\n<p>Guest:<\/p>\n<p>Stanley Nelson, Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Firelight Media. Stanley is a MacArthur Genius Fellow and recipient of the National Medal in the Humanities. Some of his films include Freedom Riders, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and The Murder of Emmett Till<\/p>\n<p>Web Resources:<\/p>\n<p>Netflix: Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian, Beatrice Loayza: 'The war on drugs funded policing': behind a Netflix documentary about crack<\/p>\n<p>Bloom&Oil, Zack Ruskin: Netflixs Crack Reveals Americas War on Drugs Was Really a War on People<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kalw.org\/show\/your-call\/2021-05-19\/crack-cocaine-corruption-conspiracy-exposes-the-truth-about-the-war-on-drugs\" title=\"'Crack: Cocaine, Corruption &amp; Conspiracy' Exposes The Truth About The War On Drugs - KALW\">'Crack: Cocaine, Corruption &amp; Conspiracy' Exposes The Truth About The War On Drugs - KALW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> On this edition of Your Call, we rebroadcast our conversation with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson about his new Netflix documentary, Crack: Cocaine, Corruption &#038; Conspiracy. Nelson looks back on how the crack epidemic of the early 1980s decimated Black and Brown communities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/war-on-drugs\/crack-cocaine-corruption-conspiracy-exposes-the-truth-about-the-war-on-drugs-kalw\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187832],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}