SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the Season 4 finale of “Godfather of Harlem,” now streaming on MGM+. In the Season 4 finale of “Godfather of Harlem,” gangster Elsworth “Bumpy” Johnson ...

Godfather of Harlem is a scripted TV series, but it lives and breathes American history. The MGM+ show fictionalizes the life and times of Bumpy Johnson (played by film icon Forest Whitaker), who rose ...

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 ...

Throughout the fourth season of Godfather of Harlem, Forest Whitaker’s Bumpy Johnson has been a man caught between two worlds: the Harlem he’s trying to build and the shadows he’s trying to leave ...

While the series masterfully weaved a narrative of power, struggle, and ambition, the true story of Bumpy Johnson is equally, if not more, fascinating While we patiently wait for season 4 of ...

The co-creator explains the contemporary music choices and hopes to continue the MGM+ series, now in its fourth season, that stars Forest Whitaker as the notorious Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson.

Fans had to wait a lonnnnng time for the fourth season of Godfather of Harlem to premiere on MGM+. The third season of the Forest Whitaker-led crime drama about 1960s New York City gangster Bumpy ...