As Detroit Opera officials made plans last fall to bring a production based on the Central Park Five to their 2025 lineup, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump loomed large and just off stage.
The men formerly known as the Central Park Five before they were exonerated are suing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
With less than 40 days until Election Day, the Rev. Al Sharpton's choice of a battleground state for a get-out-the-vote bus tour made sense.
Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this week from the same Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history that he had a part in.
NYPD officers will have to record the race of people they question under new police transparency law.
New York City Council Member Yusef Salaam says he was pulled over by city police without being given an explanation.
Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam has won a seat on the New York City Council, decades after he was wrongly imprisoned as a teen in an infamous rape case.
A member of the “Central Park Five” has won the Democratic primary for a seat on the New York City Council representing Central Harlem.
New York City elections officials began releasing preliminary results Wednesday from ranked choice voting in last week’s City Council primaries.
A man who was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused and imprisoned for the rape of a woman in Central Park has taken a commanding lead in a Democratic primary for a New York City Council seat.
Some consider Yusef Salaam a folk hero as a member of the “Central Park Five,” the group of teenagers wrongly convicted of raping a white jogger in a brutal attack 34 years ago.
An entryway to Central Park has been dedicated to remember the injustice that imprisoned five Black and Latino teenagers after they were wrongly convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger.
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NEW YORK – One of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault on a Central Park jogger has a memoir coming out in the spring. The five Black and Latino teens were coerced into confessing to a rape they didn’t commit in 1989. Ken Burns made a documentary about them and Ava DuVernay directed a Netflix series. “One of the most powerful lessons I learned while being wrongfully incarcerated was that instead of going through something, I was going to grow through something," Salaam said in a statement. “Punching the Air,” co-written by Ibi Zoboi, came out in September.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. – On Wednesday night, members of the Central Park Five visited Virginia Tech for a community discussion. The group took the stage before a group of those young and old, telling their story of being railroaded by the justice system when they were still kids. They call themselves the exonerated five now, but for years they went by the Central Park Five. They were wrongfully convicted of a rape in New York’s Central Park in the 90s, sent to jail on a built-up case. The recent attention online from the Netflix series has brought many new eyes to the case, including those of people who weren’t alive when the original case happened.
