American Gangster

Larry Davis made headlines when he wounded six NYC police officers in a dramatic 1986 shootout! Was it self-defense against crooked cops or a drug dealer's last ditch effort to escape the law? American Gangster Season 3 explores the controversial events that sent Larry Davis to prison for nearly 20 years.

"Monster" Kody Scott emblemizes the tragedy of gang life who became the subject of mainstream fascination after the 1992 L.A. riots.

The son of a minister, this former drug lord of Atlantic City literally wore a gold crown on his head, showcasing his wealth.

Cornell Jones funneled drugs throughout the major cities of the Eastern seaboard and even throughout Europe.

The first and most famous director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, consolidated his power through brilliant Public Relations moves, compromising files, and notorious programs.

Friends and foes paid tribute to Guy Fisher, the first Black owner of the Apollo Theater -- and drug lord.

The Shower Posse was an incredibly violent gang with operations in the 1980s reach stretched from Jamaica to New York to Miami and beyond.

In 2003, Willie Lloyd, a gangster who came to prominence in the '60s, was shot on the street by gang members unhappy with his epiphany about gang life and its consequences.

The Romper Room Gang was a group of notorious home grown bank robbers from the troubled Bay Area suburb of Vallejo including rapper Mac Dre.

Mutulu Shakur, Tupac Shakur's step-father and the father of rapper Mopreme, has spent the past quarter century in federal prison, thanks in part to his conviction for helping to plan and execute the $1.6 million robbery of a Brinks armored truck in New York in 1982 that left three people dead.