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Review: ‘The Central Park Five’
An imperfect film reminds Americans of chilling crime and those wrongfully convicted It’s often said that the more you know about something, the less you are apt to like a film about it. So let me...
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Growing up Behind Bars: Q&A with Yusef Salaam
Yusef Salaam was one of the five teenagers falsely convicted in the brutal rape of a white woman in Central Park in 1989. The convictions were overturned in 2002, when a serial rapist confessed to the...
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False Confessions: NYC Still Struggles in Aftermath of Central Park Five
A screenshot from the confession tape of Raymond Santana of the Central Park Five. [This story is part of a series focusing on false confessions and filming interrogations. Read other stories in the...
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Netflix Show an Inside Look at Power of Prosecutors, Media in Youth Justice...
Netflix’s highly anticipated limited series, Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us” is now out. It chronicles the story of the infamous Central Park Five case: how five teenage boys of color from Harlem...
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