Bumpy Johnson’s wild ride through New York’s criminal underworld continues on August 8, when Godfather of Harlem returns for the back half of its second season.In Epix’s crime drama created by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, Oscar winner Forest Whitaker plays the infamous crime boss, who wars with the Italian mob to regain control of his home turf when he gets out of Alcatraz in the early 1960s, aligning himself at the same time with Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch).In Season 2, the series continues to examine the connection between crime, politics and systemic racism in America, then and now.
The intersection between these facets of American culture is explored in depth in the midseason finale, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” which was written by
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