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ENTERTAINMENT
10 Comedy TV Stars Before They Were Famous
By Lily Karlin
MEDIA
Central Park Five Is a PBS & WETA "Must Watch" Doc
By Mike Smith, Contributor
CEO, Michael Smith Business Development Inc.
Ken Burns is a story-teller. His new documentary PBS film which debuted this week, The Central Park Five, is really a retrospective on the case of Trisha Meili, brutally raped near the Reservoir in the 875-acre Central Park, on April 20, 1989.
NEW YORK
Certitude and the Central Park Five
By Mik Moore, Contributor
Principal at Moore + Associates. Creator of funny videos that ...
I grew up in New York City. In 1989 I was halfway through high school. The Central Park Five were my contemporaries. There were skeptics who believed in their innocence. At the time, they were pilloried. And yet, they were right. And we were wrong.
ENTERTAINMENT
An Interview With Ken Burns and Three of The Central Park Five; Documentary Airs on PBS
By Brian Formo, Contributor
Los Angeles-based writer and frequen contributor to Crave Onli...
The film concerns five black teenagers who, not knowing their rights during detainment, were coerced into confessing to a brutal rape that left a woman in a coma in Central Park.
NEW YORK
The Central Park Five: A Still Relevant Call for Change
By Nick Malinowski, Contributor
Social Worker in Brooklyn
In many ways The Central Park Five is a history lesson and cautionary tale of the types of police and prosecutorial misconduct that is possible without effective oversight or appropriate checks and balances to power.
ENTERTAINMENT
Ken Burns on Race and The Central Park Five: "A Kind of Collective Tragedy"
By 92nd Street Y, Contributor
NEW YORK
Must-Do This Weekend: Go and See The Central Park Five
By Lisa Bernier, Contributor
Freelance writer
No New Yorker should ever forget the 1989 Central Park jogger case, not for the media attention it received, but for the gross miscarriage of justice it represents.
ENTERTAINMENT
Documentaries on the Case: The Central Park Five and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
By Regina Weinreich, Contributor
Author, 'Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics'
On April 19, 1989, you could not miss the headlines -- and the horror of the Central Park jogger case. The Central Park Five, a deft examination of the most publicized rape case in NY history, questions the handling of this case.
ENTERTAINMENT
The Central Park Five Premieres in Cannes
By Annette Insdorf, Contributor
Columbia University Film Professor; Moderator "Reel Pieces," 9...
Audiences have been galvanized by The Central Park Five. "It would be foolish to say that the story is done, that we live in a post-racial society. That's what we struggle with ... to come to terms with America's original sin, which is race."
NEW YORK
Compensation Proves Elusive For Men Wrongfully Accused In Park Rape Case
By Matt Sledge