Mara Shalhoup is a decorated journalist and a senior editor with "Creative Loafing", the preeminent alternative newsweekly serving the South. She started her writing career as a crime reporter at the "Macon Telegraph", and has gone on to earn such honors as a Clarion Award, two nominations for a Livingston Award, and recognition from the Atlanta Press Club as the city s Journalist of the Year. "BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family" is her first book. She lives with her husband in Atlanta.
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In the early 1990s, Demetrius 'Big Meech' Flenory and his brother, Terry 'Southwest T,' rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family. They socialized with music mogul Sean 'Diddy... SEE MORE