Frank Lucas, the black drug lord who ruled Harlem in the 1970s, was so discreet that the police didn't know who he was in 1971 when he decided to wear a $100,000 full-length chinchilla coat — to a Muhammad Ali boxing match.
He later wrote that this was a “massive mistake.
Apparently, Lucas’s coat caught the eye of law enforcement — who were surprised that he had better seats than Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra.
As Lucas put it: “I left that fight a marked man.”
38 years ago today, the Philadelphia police dropped bombs onto the roof of a house containing members of a Black liberation organization. The fire destroyed 61 neighboring homes and left 250 people homeless. 6 adults and 5 children were killed in the attack.
For the past 4 years @Domfishback has been acting her ass off. And it ain’t being talked about enough.
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