"Here's a guy who was a chess player, a poet, a philanthropist, a murderer and a drug dealer," Forest Whitaker says of the real-life gangster, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, he plays in "Godfather of ...

Mayme Hatcher Johnson, the widow of former Harlem underworld boss Bumpy Johnson, died on Friday (May 1). The outspoken Mayme Johnson, 94, died in her Philadelphia home of respiratory failure, ...

Harlem stood out like a glittering jewel when America was at war with itself. It became a Mecca for Black people who wanted to live, thrive, and love away from oppressive racism. Harlem was never ...

Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson was born on October 31, 1905, in Charleston, South Carolina. He was given the nickname “Bumpy” due to an abnormal growth on his head. Johnson landed in Harlem to ...

Nov. 29 (UPI) --Godfather of Harlem will return for a fourth season on MGM+. The streaming service announced in a press release Wednesday that it renewed the crime drama for Season 4. Godfather of ...

A Harlem shoeshine man, sitting at the feet of Ellsworth (Bumpy) Johnson and watching Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Malcolm X argue nearby, exclaims, ‘‘I just love seeing those silver-tongued Negroes go ...

Learn everything you need to know about the newest season of Forest Whitaker’s acclaimed series. The battle for Harlem is going to get more desperate and dangerous than ever before. “Godfather of ...

The Epix series stars Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker as the infamous gangster and crime boss Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson. It’s official: Bumpy Johnson will return to the streets of Harlem once ...