#bumpy johnson

[worldwide-blackfolk]

Soulful1865:

BLACK❤️AMERICA: Central Harlem New York City 1930s. 🇺🇲 "Soul Americans, the people of Soul, the most loved, hated and imitated, all at the same time." Ethnogenesis, History, Culture, and Innovations. Check out the latest fashion styles back then. Beautiful people.

[rah909]

[arinzeture]

“Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.”

Eldridge Cleaver

[tredawakandan]

Seen something wise in a YouTube comment 😂.. It mentioned how it's not that Black People Worship drug dealing but moreso look up to someone making something out of nothing . Crucial to this post I also want it reiterate a message I heard Farrakhan say..Basically he said how it was unfair that black folks never got to keep any of the money made from illicit activities while non blacks did. This would be like early 20th century families making money off of moonshine, prohibition & other practices. During this time folks would get caught selling but oddly enough😉 never lost all their proceedings.. A even bigger example would be all families with Old Money . Those who know understand the heinous, unsavory ways that kind of money began.. Hell in 2021 it's not even a secret that many world leaders & celebs are related oh so conveniently ..A good point to add to that is why isn't the story of Bumpy Johnson told on the same level as a Scarface or Godfather🤔. On a ending note I wanna say who knows what the retrospective families could've done with the money... Big Meech mentioned multiple times he wanted to go Legit before getting caught..

[tinuvielsblog]

American Gangster (2007) || Dir. Ridley Scott

[blackinperiodfilms]

Cicely Tyson as Stephanie St. Clair and Laurence Fishburne as Bumpy Johnson in Hoodlum (1997)

[blewis50]

I’m enjoying  Godfather of Harlem, on EPIX, not only for the story but bringing up the historical figures like Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. I haven’t heard anyone bring Mr. Powell up in any series or drama of that time. I cried when he died.

[accras]

Forest Whitaker Deals with the Mafia, Drugs and Malcolm X in “Godfather of Harlem” Trailer

“Godfather of Harlem is inspired by the story of infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Whitaker), who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles.  With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy must take on the Genovese crime family to regain control. During the brutal battle, he forms an alliance with radical preacher Malcolm X – catching Malcolm’s political rise in the crosshairs of social upheaval and a mob war that threatens to tear the city apart. Godfather of Harlem is a collision of the criminal underworld and the civil rights movement during one of the most tumultuous times in American history.“ [x]