Event Picks! Advance Screenings for The Central Park Five Documentary

Event Picks! Advance Screenings for The Central Park Five Documentary

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When we were contacted to consider organizing screenings for this very important documentary, we wasted no time pulling it together. As a result, we are happy to share two advance screening opportunities that are free and open to the public. For both screenings, we are also pleased to announce that one of the young men featured in the documentary will participate in the talk backs to immediately follow both screenings. Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of this timely and all-important dialogue.

LiL SoSo ProductionsThe RootDCFRESHH, Inc, Prince George’s Community College and WETA TV 26 are proud to present an advance screenings of THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns which tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. Directed and produced by Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns, the film chronicles the Central Park Jogger case, for the first time from the perspective of the five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice. For more information on the film click here.

 

Watch Central Park Five Trailer on PBS. See more from Central Park Five.

TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH

6:30PM
THEARC Theatre
1901 Mississippi Avenue, SE-WDC

A talk back immediately following the screening will feature:

Christopher Jenkins, Editor, The RootDC
Yusuf Salaam, Central Park Five defendant
Daniel Okonkwo, Executive Director, DC Lawyers for Youth
Jonathan Stith, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

Please note: RSVP is limited to two people per registration and does not guarantee entry. Tweeting about this screening? Use #CP5LSP when sharing about the event.

Eventbrite - Advance Screening: The Central Park Five

 

 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10TH

6:30PM
Prince George’s Community College-Rennie Form (Student Largo Center)
301 Largo Road, Largo, MD

Please note: RSVP is limited to two people per registration and does not guarantee entry. Tweeting about this screening? Use #CP5PGCC when sharing about the event.

A talk back immediately following the screening will feature:

A talk back immediately following the screening will feature:

Christopher Jenkins, Editor, The RootDC (Moderator)
Yusuf Salaam, Central Park Five defendant
Kris March, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Sociology- UMCP
Henry White, Associate Professor, Public Safety & Law, PGCC

Eventbrite - Advance Screening of The Central Park Five

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