Plain Sight ProductionsThe Philly Black Mafia: Angelo Bruno, Frank Matthews and the death of Major CoxsonIn 1973, Major Coxson was shot dead in his New Jersey home. A powerful figure in nearby Philadelphia, Coxson was a nightclub owner…Dec 8, 20211Dec 8, 20211
Plain Sight ProductionsRanger NationIn 1967, The Woodlawn Organization was awarded nearly $1 million from the federal government’s Office of Economic Opportunity. The money…Nov 10, 2020Nov 10, 2020
Plain Sight ProductionsVice Lords IncWith the help of a Peace Corps operative and the Rockefeller Foundation, Chicago’s Vice Lords created an empire which exists to this day…Nov 8, 2020Nov 8, 2020
Plain Sight ProductionsThe Muslim MobWallace Fard Muhammad is credited with founding the Detroit-based Nation of Islam, before disappearing in 1934. Instead, leadership of the…Nov 7, 2020Nov 7, 2020
Plain Sight ProductionsGhetto BrothersIn the early 1970s, an employee of New York city’s Youth Services Agency was murdered in the streets of the Bronx. Alive, Cornell “Black…Nov 6, 2020Nov 6, 2020
Plain Sight ProductionsGangs and the Great Society: Organised crime in the war on povertyIn early 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that his administration was launching an ambitious new initiative. Labelled a war on…Feb 11, 2023Feb 11, 2023