Deep Cover (feat. Adam Serwer)

Jamelle, John and special guest Adam Serwer of The Atlantic watch one of the great crime movies of the 1990s — Bill Duke’s “Deep Cover” — and talk about post-Cold War anxiety over the drug trade, Black “tough on crime” politics, and the war on drugs.
Connor Lynch (connor-lynch.com) produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck (instagram.com/rachel_e_lettering?utm_medium=co…).
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Links from the episode!
New York Times front-page for April 15, 1992 (timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1992/04/…)
James Forman’s book on the Black politics of the early 1990s, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (jamesformanjr.com).”
“THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidates' Records; Four Years of Bush’s Drug War: New Funds but an Old Strategy (nytimes.com/1992/07/28/us/1992-campaign-candid…)”