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20 Historic Moments When Black Folks Fought Back Proving We Have Greatest Will Power… Ever!
If it’s one thing Black folks know how to do, it’s flip the script and bounce back 10 times stronger!
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Yusef Salaam Explains Why He Called Trump’s Indictment “Karma”
Thirty-five years ago, a woman was brutally raped in Central Park, setting off a catalyst of events that ended in the wrongful incarceration of five teens.
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Central Park 5 Member Yusef Salaam Drags Trump In New York Times Ad
Salaam’s decision trolls Trump’s infamous 1989 newspaper ad calling for the group’s execution.
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NYC Keeps Trying to Right Its Wrongs Against the Central Park Five
The gate at the northern end of the park will be now be called “Gate of the Exonerated” in honor of the five Black and Latino men who were wrongfully convicted.
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A Sixth Teen Charged in the Central Park Five Case to Be Exonerated
Steven Lopez will be exonerated Monday after being bullied by investigators into pleading guilty.
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'Not Only Did They Try to Bury Me, but I Was a Seed': Yusef Salaam Is Better, Not Bitter
“This is not just a story about my life, but this is a story about being Black in America.” — Yusef Salaam, Author, Activist text “The worse thing to happen to us should not define us,” said Yusef Salaam. The 46-year-old sounded like a sage, as he sat proudly in a tall chair during our…
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The Brotherhood: Raymond Santana Creates a T-Shirt to Commemorate the Central Park Five
If, like me, you spent a good part of your weekend tearfully watching Ava DuVernay’s masterful When They See Us on Netflix, you likely walked away wanting to ensure the world never forgets what was done to Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Korey Wise and Raymond Santana. The five boys—then aged 14 to 16…
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Ava DuVernay on When They See Us and How the Press Failed the Central Park Five
There are few things more difficult to watch than the abuse, mistreatment and manipulation of innocent young black and brown people. In her four-part Netflix series, When They See Us, award-winning director Ava DuVernay takes us into the story of the Central Park Five—a case that had the media in a frenzy in the late…