Fans who enjoyed watching Forest Whitaker in Godfather of Harlem can look forward to the upcoming second season.
The crime drama series got renewed for Season 2 which is et to arrive on April 18, 2021.
Godfather of Harlem tells a story inspired by infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Whitaker), who in the early 1960s returned from eleven years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles.
With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy must take on the Genovese crime family to regain control. During the brutal battle, he forms an alliance with radical preacher Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch) – catching Malcolm’s political rise in the crosshairs of social upheaval and a mob war that threatens to tear the city apart. Godfather of Harlem is a collision of the criminal underworld and the civil rights movement during one of the most tumultuous times in American history.
In the upcoming season, Bumpy Johnson is battling the New York Crime Families for control of the lucrative and murderous “French Connection,” the pipeline for heroin that runs from Marseilles to New York Harbor.
With a distribution syndicate that includes black crime bosses from other major U.S. cities, Bumpy takes a cue from his friend Malcolm X’s message of black economic nationalism. His ambitious plan will face challenges from not only the Italians but his wife Mayme, daughter Elise, rival Adam Clayton Powell, prosecutor Robert Morgenthau, and even Malcolm himself.
Check out the new teaser below:
Harlem may change, but it will always belong to Bumpy Johnson ✊🏾. #GodfatherOfHarlem is back April 18th, only on @EPIXHD. pic.twitter.com/S1cJgpoVOu
— Godfather of Harlem on EPIX (@GodfatherHarlem) February 18, 2021
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