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 Matteo Messina Denaro has passed away. The Cosa Nostra boss, head of the mafia family in Castelvetrano, and considered one...

Recent News: Mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted man, was arrested on January 16, 2023. He had eluded capture for some 30 years.

Sicilian Mafia, also called Cosa Nostra (Italian: Our Thing) or black hand, hierarchically structured organization of criminals in Sicily, Italy. The Sicilian Mafia is made up of a coalition of criminal organizations—called “families” or “clans” in English and cosche (singular, cosca) in Italian—which engage in extortion, smuggling, gambling, and the mediation of disagreements between other criminals. The term Mafia has become synonymous in English with organized crime, but technically Mafia refers only to the Sicilian organization and its Sicilian American counterpart in the Unit...

Through her photographs and activism, Letizia Battaglia sought to wrest Palermo from the grip of the Mafia. (Please note: This article contains graphic content.)

A look back at the life and career of Letizia Battaglia, a photographer who exposed the Sicilian mafia with her camera for decades.