Pubdate: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 Source: New York Daily News (NY) Copyright: 2007 Daily News, L.P. Contact: http://www.nydailynews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/295 Author: Oren Yaniv, Daily News Staff Writer Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin) PRINCIPAL NIXES 'AMERICAN GANGSTER' TALK "American Gangster" Frank Lucas has been expelled from a Brooklyn school. Lucas, the reformed drug kingpin and subject of the hit Denzel Washington flick, was scheduled to lecture students at Middle School 143 in Bed-Stuy last Friday before the principal abruptly canceled his appearance. "I was very disappointed," Lucas said yesterday. "I really wanted to talk to them, to tell them what I did was wrong. I'll go down on my knees if I have to." The man who ruled Harlem's heroin trade in the 1970s recently started speaking to schoolkids, sharing his past and imploring them to stay away from drugs. The reaction has been positive, he said, but less than three hours before his first talk in a New York City school, MS 143 Principal Adofo Muhammad pulled the plug on the event. "I changed my mind the night before," Muhammad said. "I'm just not convinced in this particular case. ... I need to see a little more before I bring him in." - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake