She had been trying to tell her own story since appearing on the show and publishing a 2007 memoir. She and Burns wrote a limited-series television show, “A.K.A. Snoop,” based on Pearson’s life.

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Felicia "Snoop" Pearson By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com. WASHINGTON — One of the reasons David Simons’ critically acclaimed HBO show “The Wire” was so realistic was because it had folks like Felicia ...