Ava DuVernay to make a Central Park Five miniseries for Netflix
In 1989, five teenagers from Harlem were accused of raping and beating a woman in New York’s Central Park, and though they confessed, they withdrew their confessions almost immediately and said they had been coerced by overzealous police officers. Unfortunately, the city—particularly the son of a racist real estate mogul who was just establishing his own penchant for idiocy—demanded “justice,” and the five teenagers were quickly convicted. While all five were finally exonerated in 2014, the attitudes and biases that got them locked up in the first place are still around, not to mention the fact that the aforementioned son of a racist real estate mogul is now the president.