May 22, 2013

Central Park Five’s Santana: Discussing Ordeal is ‘Therapeutic’

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*PBS will air the latest Ken Burns documentary “Central Park Five” on April 16, to be followed the next day with an online discussion featuring the filmmakers and all five of the exonerated men, streamed live by The New York Times. The film tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem [...]




Debut of Ken Burns’ ‘The Central Park Five’ Documentary Met with Contempt

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*New York City is still reeling over a heinous crime committed in the city’s sacred Central Park in 1989. But this time around, the political crusher that came down on five youth and sent them to jail in a crucial part of their development is on trial. Five youth that became known as the Central [...]