Central Park FIve Film Screening and Community Dialogue

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.

The film explores the story of the miscarriage of justice that engulfed Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise, the black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of the horrific 1989 crime. The brutal beating and rape of a white woman in New York City's Central Park provoked public outrage and sensational headlines during the prosecution and conviction of the five defendants. Less known is the story of the eventual exoneration of the men who served full prison sentences.

 Join the Children’s Law Center, Imani Family Life Center, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Lexington NAACP, Lexington Leadership Foundation, Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice, Men of Action, the University of Kentucky Chapter of the NAACP and Black Student Union, the Kentucky Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the Department of Public Advocacy, Nia Community of Faith, the KY Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and the Human Rights Commission on August 10th from 1-5pm at Imani Baptist Church to watch “The Central Park Five” and hold a conversation about the documentary as well as about coerced confessions, race based stops, and injustices within our own community.