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For The Culture With Farajii: Interview with Black Mafia Family’s Tonesa Welch

Photo Credit: @FirstLadyOfBMF

BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) —Tonesa Welch, also known as the “first lady” of the notorious Black Mafia Family joins Farajii Muhammad to share her powerful story. 

The Black Mafia Family, a drug trafficking and money laundering organization, was founded in the late 1980s by the infamous Detroit brothers, Demetrius ‘Big Meech’ Flenory and Terry ‘Southwest T’ Flenory.

 

Tonesa, the longtime girlfriend of Terry, shares her experience working with the brothers, how the nationwide organization brought in over $300 million and life after prison. 

 

When I first got in the gang, before I met T and Meech, I was 19 years old. I got in early, I was so fascinated by it…”

 
Click below to hear the discussion
  

For the first hour of the show, click here. 

Baltimore native, Micarie Kemp has always been passionate about working in the media.