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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, […]
An Illinois man was sentenced to prison for ordering 42 pounds of chocolate edibles. CNN reports that Thomas Franzen of the Chicagoland area pled guilty to possession of upwards of 5000 grams of cannabis and received the minimum sentence: 4 years in prison. In a statement from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office, prosecutors made it […]
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 […]
Dodgeball is being as a means for “oppression,” according to Canadian professors. The Washington Post reports that educators from three of the country’s universities believer that dodgeball in physical education classes teaches children to dehumanize and act violently towards their peers. “When you’re setting up the environment for students to learn, and you introduce the […]
Michael B. Jordan introduced the Central Park Five by telling a familiar story to anyone growing up black in America. “It’s dangerous in America when you’re living in a black body,” Michael B. Jordan said during an ACLU of Southern California event. The 32-year-old actor spoke these words as he presented the Central Park Five […]
A Canadian teenager may have paid a huge price for a chicken wing meal. And we mean huge. According to WTVR, the 16-year-old was slapped with hefty fines this month after he was busted behind the wheel of a Camaro driving 105 MPH. When confronted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the boy provided an unexpected excuse: […]
Rainn Wilson shared a photo of a noose hanging from a friend’s tree earlier this week, and the police are reportedly looking into it. While he characterized the police response as blasé, sources who spoke to TMZ say they are taking the matter very seriously. “When the police were called they said, essentially, ‘what’s the […]
TMZ has learned that Brad Pitt has reached out to the organizers of the Straight Pride Parade through his team, and demanded that they do not use his name or likeness for their event. The 55-year-old actor has also threatened to use further action if his request isn’t honored. Pitt took these measures after discovering […]
As we grow older, our interest in the circus might begin to wane as we struggle to deal with watching a show featuring animals that may be getting wrongfully treated behind the curtains. Based in Germany, Circus Roncalli seems to understand this dilemma, creating a show that includes all the elements of a circus that you […]
Nepali crews of sherpas have pulled over 24 thousand pounds of garbage and four bodies off of Mount Everest in the last two months. The expedition to remove garbage and bodies came as climbers were complaining of the amount of waste left on the mountain. The team of 20 sherpas was able to pull five […]
