Episode 5: The Philadelphia Black Mafia

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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On the fifth episode of the Sitdown, Jeff delves into one of the most violent black gangs in the history of America. They ruled African American neighborhoods in Philadelphia with an iron fist and used religion as a vail for their atrocities. Joining the show is one of the great authors on the subject and author of Black Brothers Inc, Sean Patrick Griffin. Sean is a distinguished author, researcher and a current college professor at the Citadel. He served on Philadelphia Police Department for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.0	Welcome to the sit-down, a mafia history podcast. Here's your host, Jeff Nado.
0:52.8	What's up everybody and welcome back to the sit-down, a crime and mafia
0:57.6	podcast. I'm really excited for this show. I am Jeff Nado. As always, we're back.
1:02.7	Another show. This has really been a great couple of weeks. We've had some great
1:07.3	shows. We've done the mafia cops, Mickey Scarfo, Vince Giganti, and the last week
1:13.0	John Gotti. But this week we're going to take a little bit of a different
1:16.7	direction with the show. And when I started this show, I knew I was going to do
1:21.6	this episode. And I knew that I was going to kind of roll into different organized crime
1:26.7	groups. And a organized crime group that no one talks about outside of my city of
1:31.6	Philadelphia is the Philadelphia Black Mafia. Now, I think a lot of people get
1:35.6	confused with groups like BMF, which is the Black Mafia family, which is a
1:40.0	totally different group that came many years later. But the guests that I'm
1:45.0	bringing on today, I've always been fascinated by this subject being because
1:48.8	it's a Philadelphia subject. And I think it has so many ties to right now
1:53.8	in really the makeup of what Philadelphia has become connections to the
1:58.2	nation of Islam. And really, some of the more heinous crimes in the history of
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