Lamar Johnson

A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the ...

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot ...

A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

When a mayor running for re-election is caught on video smoking crack, he’ll do whatever it takes to keep it out of the wrong hands.