The Central Park Five was a group of five young men–four African Americans (Yusef Salaam, 16; Anthony McCray, 16; Kharey Wise, 18; and Kevin Richardson, 16) and one Hispanic (Raymond Santana, 15)–who were tried and convicted of attempted murder, rape, sodomy, and assault of a woman in Central Park in New York City. Their trial was known as the “Central Park Jogger Trial” in the press and, according to the New York Times, was “one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s. Continue reading Revisit: THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (1989)