100:1 The Crack Legacy Podcast
1) Ep. 6: 37th & 8th
Christopher Johnson speaks Neill Franklin, a black, former cop who offers rare insight into the ways his department both incentivized the fight against crack and physically displayed their anti-black ...Show More
2) Ep. 5: 500 Names
In this episode, Christopher Johnson examines how changes in the law took discretion away from judges. Rather than being able to take into account the human in front of them, judges were now required ...Show More
3) Ep. 4: Inmate #06831-424
Meet Eric Wilson. With no adult support and no options for work on Chicago’s Southside, Eric eventually turned to selling crack to support himself and his siblings. This episode details how Eric recei...Show More
4) Ep. 3: The 202
Christopher Johnson brings listeners back in time to the Washington D.C. of his youth, when the crack-cocaine trade turned the city into America’s murder capital. Take a ride with a former narcotics c...Show More
5) Ep 2: 100:1
In this episode, producer Derek John heads to the US Capitol to uncover what really went on during the secret drafting of the 100:1 bill in 1986. Meet Eric Sterling, a former Congressional lawyer, who...Show More
6) Ep. 1: Autopsy No. 86-999
100:1 The Crack Legacy begins with the deaths of two young black men: Freddie Gray, in 2015, and Len Bias, in 1986. The ties between their deaths are unsettling, but, together, they illuminate how the...Show More