Central Park Conservancy unveils The Gate of the Exonerated in honor of the Exonerated Five and other wrongly convicted

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Photos credit: Bill Moore On April 20, 1989, the lives of five Black and Latino teenagers, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam, took an unexpected turn when they were arrested by the NYPD and questioned … Read More

The Central Park Five reveals the truth about the Central Park Jogger case

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Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Sarah Burns, Yusef Salaam and Kharey Wise By Isseu Diouf Campbell Twenty-three years after the beating and rape of Central Park jogger Trisha Meili, five teenagers, whose voices were lost in the brouhaha of the prosecutors … Read More