LOS ANGELES— Michael B. Jordan told the men known as the Central Park Five on Friday that he cannot watch footage of the new series “When They See Us” without getting emotional and feeling that as a young black man he too could have faced a similar ordeal.
“It’s dangerous in America when you’re living in a black body,” Jordan said.
Jordan praised the men — Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — for their perseverance and courage during a luncheon where the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California honored Netflix’s series about their case.
“The whole time that these men were incarcerated, they never changed their story,” he said. “They insisted of their innocence even as they did their time.”
Salaam cried as he accepted an award on behalf of series creator Ava DuVernay.
“I’m not ashamed to cry in front of you,” Salaam said after a moment of silence as he reflected on how he and the other men were “just boys” between the ages of 13 and 16 years old when they were wrongfully convicted.
“Our story is a story of an egregious miscarriage of justice,” he added.
Jordan hugged Salaam, who also spoke on behalf of the five men.
“That’s courage,” said Jordan, whose performances have ranged from his acclaimed portrayal of a young black man killed by a police officer in “Fruitvale Station” to the vengeful Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther.”
Salaam and the rest of the Central Park Five were exonerated in 2002 after being charged with the 1989 rape of a white woman in New York’s Central Park. They received a standing ovation while accepting the ACLU chapter’s inaugural Roger Baldwin Courage Award. Baldwin was one of the ACLU’s founders and its first executive director.
“When They See Us” isn’t Hollywood’s first attempt to recount the story of the Central Park Five’s wrongful conviction, but it has sparked a renewed interest in the details of the case.
Hector Villagra, executive director of the ACLU of Southern California, said DuVernay refocused the narrative on the humanity of the five men and it has shone a new light on a widely known case 30 years later.
The series has re-ignited outcry about how the case was handled. Linda Fairstein, the Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor who observed the teenagers’ interrogation, has faced backlash for her role in their conviction. Fairstein has already resigned from at least two nonprofit boards as backlash intensified and a #CancelLindaFairstein movement spread on social media.
Shortly before the men accepted their award, Fairstein was dropped by her book publisher in the face of the increasing criticism. Villagra said that he thinks it’s fair that Fairstein be judged for her actions, even decades later.
“It’s in many ways justice delayed,” Villagra said.
Check your email ladies
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Y’all might not received the email. It says I have 768 emails in my inbox. My Icloud has gone to hell.
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Can you say CHILD TRAFFICKING, ladies and gentlemen 😠😠😠😠
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Will they put this mofo beast in prison already?
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Yes, WTF> Is this photo shopped?
Look @ Pence. He’s salivating over Reince in that uniform, huh
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Uh huh 😒
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This MOFO right here. Always suspicious of this fool. Just gone with the rest of the RATFUCKERS, like Young Turks now will you.
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I never got behind him. I wasn’t feeling him. Now I know why.
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Was listening to the non-political Black women at the job..
They aren’t pleased about Biden switching on the Hyde Amendment. Not that they are pro-life, just cause if that’s been his position all these years, he should have stuck with it.
Yes, ‘Uncle Joe’ still has their votes.
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Ken Cuccinelli Wanted to End Birthright Citizenship & Militarize Border—Now He’s Trump’s Immigration Chief
The former Virginia attorney general officially started on Monday at DHS.
Scott Bixby
National Reporter
Updated 06.10.19 3:30PM ET / Published 06.10.19 11:51AM ET
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Come on wit it @JoyceWhiteVance! Do your thang!
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Hot boxing! Inside Mike Tyson’s pot empire – from ‘premium cannabis’ to plans for a 420-acre marijuana holiday resort in the California desert with a ‘weed university’ and music festival venue
Mike Tyson created Tyson Holistic in 2016 where he sells premium strains of cannabis and is developing the 418-acre Tyson Ranch near Desert Hot Springs
The ranch will be a marijuana resort with a luxury hotel, glamping tents, the longest lazy river in the word, a music festival venue and a Tyson University
Weed will be sold and visitors will be allowed to smoke anywhere in the park
In February he threw the inaugural Kind Festival at the site of the future ranch where Miguel and A$AP Ferg performed
The 52-year-old former world heavyweight champ doesn’t grow any of the weed himself, but works with local farmers and approves the high-grade cannabis
He’s put his lucrative name on various strains of marijuana, expanded into CBD dog treats, and hemp-oil muscle rub
His business is in negotiations to build another Tyson Ranch on the border of Florida and Georgia
By MARLENE LENTHANG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 12:47 EDT, 10 June 2019 | UPDATED: 14:02 EDT, 10 June 2019
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Not mad at Tyson. AT.ALL
Get your $$$$ like the rest of the folks.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Boston Red Sox star David ‘Big Papi’ Ortiz was shot in a Dominican Republic bar by ‘two cops hired by a drug lord who believed the baseball hero was having an affair with his wife’
David ‘Big Papi’ Ortiz, 43, was shot in a club in his hometown of Santo Domingo on Sunday
Police believe his shooters were hired by a reputed drug lord
Eddy Feliz Garcia, a local man, was captured by crowds at the scene and was then taken into custody
Ortiz, who lives part of the year in the Dominican Republic, is in stable condition after surgery
His representative has denied that it had anything to do with a woman
‘Please don’t let me die, I’m a good man,’ Ortiz begged the ER doctor
Ortiz is a three-time World Series champion during his career with the Red Sox
He splits his time between Santo Domingo and Miami
It is unclear if his wife and children were on the island when he was shot
His father has been giving updates on his condition from the hospital
Ortiz is adored both in Boston and in the Dominican Republic where he was born
By MICHAELA FREDA IN BOSTON and JENNIFER SMITH and ADRY TORRES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 10:40 EDT, 10 June 2019 | UPDATED: 15:19 EDT, 10 June 2019
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Schooley (@Rschooley) Tweeted:
Let me be clear: I will be the ‘grim reaper’ in the Senate when it comes to socialist schemes that would destroy jobs, private health insurance, and the free enterprise system. -Mitch McConnell https://t.co/c2qn9507Cl https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1137781686270169088?s=17
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Kelly ain’t shit,
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Happy Birthday 🎉🎂🎈💐😊🤗😍
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Happy 18th Birthday, Sasha!!!
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Stupid mofo…
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Manchin is a DINO That’s it.
Go on over to the DARK SIDE, CHICKEN SHIT JOE.
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Doctor with dubious past decided on unnecessary pelvic exam rule
In Part 2 of a TRMS Special Report, Rachel Maddow reports on the Randall Williams, the Missouri state health official who decided that women seeking a legal abortion from the state’s last clinic offering abortion services must first submit to a vaginally invasive, medically unnecessary pelvic exam.
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The beginning of the conflict. I daresay most Americans don’t know about this. But how would they? They don’t know their own history let alone that of others.
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I haven’t actually done this but I do believe I could eat half a dozen KK glazed donuts. I absolutely love them.
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Liza, I wish I could send you some donuts from Max Donuts here. You’d be hooked. I’m afraid if I ship them they might be stale by the time they reach you.
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I googled them. Must be good, lots of people think so.
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They’re the bestest!
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I guess I could over-night them? I overnighted some things to Ametia.
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I didn’t send her donuts tho. I sent Kolaches.
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Word of the Day : June 10, 2019
Ineffable: adjective in-EFF-uh-bul
Definition
1 a : incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable
b : inexpressibly bad : unspeakable
2 : not to be uttered : taboo
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BYE BYE BECKY!
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Ok….from where I am sitting….Gigi don’t know where he’s living….his shyt only works in a country like the USA. That man down in Brazil won’t think twice about phucking him up and getting him to ‘ disappear’.
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This thread is crazy 😂😂
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Great story. Real life is often stranger than fiction.
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https://twitter.com/PattyMonstercx/status/1137581226666090502
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Showing them to be who we always knew who they were😠😠😠
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Yes.. tell it👏👏👏
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Uh huh 😒🤨
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Well…..answer the question 🤔🤔🤔
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Yes, ANSWER THE DAM QUESTION
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Looks like Kevin Kruse is schooling Dinesh AGAIN 😂😂😂😂
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OOPS! THERE IT IS
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Yes👏👏👏
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Truth 😒😒
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Barbara Slate (@BarbaraSlate) Tweeted:
I’m so excited! I just can’t hide it. I’m about to lose control and I like it! The first unedited version of my Mueller Graphic Novel. https://t.co/cg9sYLW4Dk https://twitter.com/BarbaraSlate/status/1137162766450647040?s=17
How to order one:
https://minsky.com/muellerreportgraphicnovel.htm
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Interesting.
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If ever a group of folks made RACE & IDENTITY FLAWED, it’s WHITE PEOPLE
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Keep spelling it out 😒😒
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But, of course 😒 😒
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Yes, this is what demons do, DEMONIZE those they hate.
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The responses 😂😂😂
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It’s up to each woman to decide what and how they want to do in the relationship with their partners
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Yes👏
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SPOT ON!
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Awe😍
Mother and Daughter ❤️
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But, Adam is absolutely correct.
Remember…
” He’s not hurting the right people.”
Serwer is completely on point.👏👏
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Read the truck 😂😂😂
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Prayers for Big Papi 🙏🙏🙏
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Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
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Good Morning Rikyrah & Everyone!
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