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GRAND RISING WITH SHABAKA AND THE CHE'S: CENTRAL PARK 5 EDITION

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On this Season 9 Episode 3 of Grand Rising with Shabaka and the Che;s we will be discussing the Central Park 5 and the Dump as in human shit putting out an ad in the NY Amsterdam news to have them wrongfully arrested after a white women said these 4 Blacc teenagers and 2 Latino teenagers raped her on April 19, 1989.

Six teenagers were indicted in relation to the Meili assault. Charges against one, Steven Lopez, were dropped after Lopez pleaded guilty to a different assault. The remaining five—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise (known as the Central Park Five, later the Exonerated Five)—were convicted of the charged offenses and served sentences ranging from seven to thirteen years.

On May 1, 1989, Donald Trump—at the time a real estate magnate—called for the return of the death penalty for murder in full-page advertisements published in all four of the city's major newspapers. Trump said he wanted the "criminals of every age to be afraid".The advertisement, which cost an estimated US$85,000 (equivalent to $209,000 in 2023)

Our co- executive producer Che Nkrumah has the pleasure of meeting the Central Park 5 in Denver,CO bacc in 2020 at the Convention Center. One the Central Park 5 was elected into NYC Assembly representing Harlem New York Yusef Salaam!

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