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  2. Jun 5, 2019 · The Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay once again explores systemic racial injustice in her new Netflix mini-series, When They See Us, which recounts the story of the so-called Central Park Five.

  3. Ultimately, it's still worth a try, but those hoping for more of the facts and the nitty gritty should turn to the Ken Burns documentary instead. Full Review | Jan 18, 2020

  4. Jun 5, 2019 · Ava DuVernay’s new four-part series When They See Us, which had its debut on Netflix last week, was hard to watch. I knew the story of the “Central Park Five” before watching the miniseries. I was a ninth-grader in April 1989 when the story of the brutal rape of a White woman jogger in New York’s Central Park went national.

    • Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
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  5. May 30, 2019 · When They See Us Finds Redemption for the Central Park Five—And for Their Mothers. Ava DuVernay's four-part Netflix series sets the narrative straight about the infamous 1989 case and...

  6. Ava DuVernay pulls no punches in When They See Us, laying out the harrowing events endured by the Central Park Five while adding a necessary layer of humanity to their story that challenges...

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    • Michael Kenneth Williams
    • Ava Duvernay
    • May 31, 2019
  7. May 31, 2019 · When They See Us plays like a slow-motion, micro version of her terrific documentary 13th, showing the pipeline that funnels young men of color into the prison system because, among other...

  8. In 1989 a jogger was assaulted and raped in New York's Central Park, and five young people were subsequently charged with the crime. The quintet, labeled the Central Park Five, maintained its ...

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