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[…] excited to announce the 2023 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage, New York City’s beloved outdoor performing arts festival, bringing 80 free and benefit shows to Central Park and 12 neighborhood parks across the five boroughs. Returning for its 37th year, the festival will once again showcase established and emerging artists from across […]

[…] — An entrance to Central Park will be named the “Gate of the Exonerated” to honor the group of Black and Hispanic teens known as the “ Central Park Five” who were wrongfully convicted of beating and raping a White female jogger in the park more than 30 years ago. Individuals from the group, also known […]

The Central Park Five *GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump turns Will Rogers famed maxim that he never met a man he didn’t like on its head every time when it comes to race baiting. He’s never met an opportunity to take a racial dig or shot that he didn’t like. This time it’s the Central Park […]

[…] — New York City unveiled the “Gate of the Exonerated” in Central Park Monday to honor the group of Black and Hispanic teens known as the “ Central Park Five” who were wrongfully convicted of beating and raping a White female jogger in the park more than 30 years ago. Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, […]

Ava DuVernay (Instagram) *Ava DuVernay is teaming with Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, Participant Media and Tribeca Productions to bring the true story of the Central Park Five jogger case to Netflix in 2019, reports Variety. Created, written and directed by DuVernay, the five-episode scripted series follows the true 1989 case of five teens who were wrongfully convicted of […]

[…] Us,” ex-prosecutor Linda Fairstein has been called out on social media for her role in turning upside the lives of the Black and Latino males dubbed the Central Park Five back in the late 80’s. Fairstein was in charge of the interrogation of the wrongfully convicted teens then went on to have a highly successful literary […]

The real life Central Park Five *I do not know how I really feel about the Ava DuVernay directed and executive produced Netflix Original movie, “When They See Us,” the story of the “Central Park Five.” First off, the acting was superb; award winning in fact.  Actually, the entire movie was an award-winning caliber production. Ava […]

[…] June 09, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Source: Getty Images North America) *Two years after receiving a $41 million wrongful conviction payout from New York City, the Central Park Five collected an additional $3.9 million from the state. The settlement was for the economic and emotional ruin the five men endured caused by their imprisonment as […]

Yusef Salaam (Mary Altaffer-AP) *Yusef Salaam, one of the “ Central Park Five” who was wrongly convicted and later exonerated for a 1989 attack on a white female jogger, will be a member of the New York City Council. Salaam won a Democratic primary earlier this year. USA Today reports that he emerged victorious in the […]

[…] of her person (link). In the aftermath, youths Kevin Richardson, 14, Raymond Santana, 14, Antron McCray, 15, Yusef Salaam, 15, and Korey Wise 16 known as the Central Park Five were convicted by New York prosecutors. In an effort to rescue truth and alleviate the stress of the Central Park Five, Ava DuVernay, years later memorialized […]

[…] Archives /(c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images) *Shout out to Black Twitter for doing its part in helping to bring down the lead prosecutor of the Central Park Five. According to published reports, Elizabeth Lederer has resigned from Columbia Law School, amid scrutiny over how she handled the 1989 rape case of a female jogger […]

Central Park Karen (Amy Cooper) *Amy Cooper, the woman known as “Central Park Karen,” is speaking out about her infamous encounter with Christian Cooper (no relation)—a Black bird-watcher whom she accused of threatening her and her dog in Central Park last May. “I don’t know that as a woman alone in a park […]

[…] At Raleigh Studios on June 09, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (June 8, 2019 – Source: Getty Images North America) *The former prosecutor whose office oversaw the Central Park Five case has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix and director Ava DuVernay over her portrayal in the acclaimed miniseries “When They See Us.” Linda Fairstein is also […]

[…] for Florida, he took questions from reporters. White House correspondent April Ryan was one of those reporters and she asked Trump if he would apologize to the Central Park Five after famously taking out a full page ad that called for their executions. “Why do you bring that question up now?” he asked her. Apparently he’s […]

[…] before DNA tests proved their innocence. The men were exonerated in 2002, and the city awarded them a $41-million settlement in 2014. The teens were dubbed the Central Park Five but DuVernay says “We call them the Exonerated Five.” OTHER NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED: Nipsey Hussle to be Honored Posthumously at 2019 BET Awards This Weekend […]