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Best Of: Timothy Olyphant / Understanding The Crack Era

Timothy Olyphant is best known for portraying lawmen in cowboy hats. He reprises the role of U.S. marshal Raylan Givens in the eight-part sequel, Justified: City Primeval, based on Elmore Leonard’s novel. He also played Sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood.

“We won’t heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic,” Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug’s destructive path through the Black community.