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Global Citizen Festival has announced the lineup for next month’s 10th anniversary edition. On Sept. 24, the fest will return to New York City’s Central Park, where the international advocacy organization held its inaugural event in 2012. Hosted by Global Citizen ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas, the NYC portion of the festivities will see live performances from Mariah Carey, Charlie […]
The woman known as “Central Park Karen” is back to playing the victim. In Tuesday’s episode of Bari Weiss’ Honestly podcast, Amy Cooper relived her infamous encounter with Christian Cooper—a Black bird-watcher whom she accused of threatening her and her dog while they were out for a walk in Central Park. “I don’t know that as a […]
Christian Cooper, the black man who recorded his unnecessarily tense interaction with a white woman in New York City’s Central Park on Memorial Day after he asked her to put her dog on a leash, said on The View Thursday that he has accepted Amy Cooper’s apology. “I do accept her apology. It’s a first step. I think she’s got to do some […]
On Monday morning, a white woman in New York City’s famed Central Park decided to call the cops on a black man after he requested that she restrain her dog with a leash. “I’m gonna tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life,” the woman, who has been identified as Amy Cooper, can be heard […]
On Monday, a judge dismissed a lawsuit against Ava DuVernay and Netflix over a scene from the Central Park jogger case-based miniseries When They See Us. That series was created and directed by DuVernay, and aired on that particular streaming platform in May 2019. The suit which was dismissed on Monday was actually filed in […]
A police interrogation company is suing director Ava DuVernay and Netflix over a scene on the streaming service’s miniseries on the Central Park Five case, When They See Us. John E. Reid & Associates is known for creating and popularizing the “Reid Technique,” a controversial police interrogation method that critics say produces false confessions. The federal […]
You never know what you’ll see in New York… literally. According to the New York Post, there have been close to 35 reported coyote sightings around the city. This is already four-times the number of reports recorded in all of 2018 and six-times the amount of sightings reported in 2017. Most of these encounters have […]
The lead prosecutor of the Central Park Jogger case has resigned from Columbia Law School, amid renewed scrutiny over her involvement in the 1989 case. Elizabeth Lederer announced her decision in a statement shared by Columbia Law School Dean Law Gillian Lester. Lederer worked part-time at the university as an adjunct faculty member and lecturer in law. “I’ve enjoyed my years […]
Ava DuVernay’s powerful Netflix miniseries When They See Us chronicles the wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five in 1989, and the actions taken by prosecutors and local figureheads to frame the five black and brown teens for a crime they didn’t commit. In a recent interview with Shadow and Act, three of the five men—Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, […]
Linda Fairstein, the now infamous prosecutor in the Central Park Five case, didn’t want to participate in the Netflix series When They See Us if the five accused men—Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, and Kharey Wise—were also being consulted, one of the show’s producers alleges. When They See Us executive producer Jane Rosenthal claims her team and Fairstein exchanged a […]
