*As protests turned ugly Monday in Baltimore, several cast members and the creator of HBO’s “The Wire” – which was set in and filmed around the city – are speaking out about the unrest following the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Spike Lee's fiery new movie "Chi-Raq" opens Friday. Actress Felicia Pearson was in town last summer working on the film. Pearson bounds into the room with spirit and sass. She acts, ...

Felicia “Snoop” Pearson is running a few minutes late to a joint interview alongside her writing partner Ed Burns, so Burns fills the time with a helpful story about one of the few other instances of ...

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson gave one of the best performances in HBO's The Wire in part because she grew up around the Baltimore streets the show portrayed. Newly found recordings of her on a real police ...

Baltimore's very own Felicia "Snoop" Pearson talks about her recent projects and schools us on how to pronounce some words with a Baltimore accent. Catch her in the all new series "American Gangster: ...

David Simon, the director of the HBO series The Wire, has responded to the arrest of his former colleague Felicia Pearson aka Snoop. "I'm certainly sad at the news today," he wrote in a statement ...

Part of what made The Wire such an amazing show was the tension in that some of the actors seems plausibly threatening enough to commit the real life versions of their televised crimes. When Snoop is ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Every few years, I rewatch “The Wire,” the five-season show set in ...

An actress who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBO’s “The Wire” is set to be arraigned on charges of conspiring to sell heroin. The arraignment for actress Felicia “Snoop” Pearson is set for ...

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson is detained in a marijuana and heroin ring bust. It's a sad turn for a once-hopeful story ...