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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"They didn't know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from child to man, and gained a spiritual perspective on life. Yusef learned that we're all 'born on purpose, with a purpose.' Despite having confronted the racist heart of America while being 'run over by...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 119 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Central Park five, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989. The film chronicles The Central Park Jogger case, for the first time from the perspective of these five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
243 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author and renowned prosecuting attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum provides the first insider's account of the historic Wylie-Hoffert case, from the shocking double-murder to the wrenching interrogation of an innocent young man, and the heroic Assistant District Attorney who risked everything to unravel a disgraceful injustice.
Chronicle of the infamous Career Girls Murders, a case that led to the Supreme Court's enactment of...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An in-depth account of one of New York City's most notorious crimes. On April 20, 1989, the body of a woman is discovered in Central Park, her skull badly smashed. Within days, five black and Latino teenagers confess to her rape and beating. The ensuing media frenzy and hysterical public reaction is extraordinary. The young men are tried and convicted as adults, despite the fact that the teens quickly recant their inconsistent and inaccurate confessions...
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1980, a young man named Marvin Grant was gunned down in Flatbush Brooklyn. Clarence Lewis, a fifteen-year-old with a penchant for lying, told the police he saw what happened and was pressured to identify a suspect. This set into motion a series of events that led to the arrest of Colin Warner, an innocent teenager who lived in nearby Crown Heights.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Whose Streets?, Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, and The Central Park Five.
Language
English
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Description
This Binge box explorers contemporary social inequality in America.
Titles included: The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Whose Streets?, Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, and The Central Park Five.
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