PBS 'Central Park Five' airing illuminates racial biases in justice
OPINION - The documentary might be easier to stomach if 'justice' had improved since then. But it’s not so far fetched that this could happen now, is it?...
Sharpton talks to wrongly convicted 'Central Park Five'
VIDEO - On Thursday's Politics Nation, Rev. Al Sharpton spoke with the four of the five men who as teenagers in the early 1990s were wrongly convicted of gang raping a white jogger in Central Park...
'Central Park Five' snubbed on Oscar documentary shortlist
theGRIO REPORT - Ken Burns' film about the minority youths falsely accused in the rape of Central Park jogger in the 1980s, The Central Park Five, has been left off the Academy Awards shortlist for best documentary...
Sharpton on 'Meet the Press' talks Obama agenda
VIDEO - Rev. Al Sharpton joined the roundtable on 'Meet the Press' to discuss the 'fiscal cliff,' and the anticipated second term agenda for President Barack Obama...
'Central Park Five' revisited in Ken Burns film
theGRIO REPORT - Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns calls his latest release The Central Park Five his most "journalistic" project. The film, which opens in limited release in New York Friday, details the story of the 'Central Park Jogger' assault and rape case which nearly left a young woman dead...
NYC seeks Ken Burns' footage for Central Park jogger lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) - Lawyers for New York City are seeking access to footage gathered by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns in research for his movie about the five men exonerated in the Central Park jogger rape case...
Will Jack Johnson be pardoned on Obama's watch?
OPINION - Obama is under an intense racial microscope, and any misstep, real, or invented, will bring instant howls as yet another example of racial favoritism...
