May 25, 2013

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 [...]




People of Note: The Hadley Players Present ‘The Devil & Elijah Muhammad’

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*The Hadley Players ended their fall season with “The Devil & Elijah Muhammad,” a tale that took the spectator into the latter years of Elijah’s Muhammad’s reign over the Nation of Islam. According to the play written by Yusef Salaam and directed by Ward Nixon, the Hon. Elijah Muhammad began realizing the need to change [...]