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2019-10-28 14:01:46
NY Is Trying To Diversify Its Monuments. Not So Easy, It Turns Out
Under Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, the city is aiming to build monuments at an unusually rapid rate to honor women, people of color and others previously overlooked. But the effort has become far more contentious than expected, as a diverse, vocal and highly opinionated city fights over the legacy it […]
2019-06-21 00:34:00
WashingtonPost.com: ‘The Central Park Five,’ in song: composer Anthony Davis
Left to Right: Cedric Berry, Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, Nathan Granner, Orson Van Gay, Raymond Santana, Derrell Acon, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Bernard Holcomb (singers are Cedric, Nathan, Orson, Derrell and Bernard - they are all standing next to the person whom they portray in the opera). (Rob Shanahan) The Washington Post Anne Midgette June 20, 2019 You’ve seen the TV show, now see the opera. On June 15, “The Central Park Five,” a new opera by composer Anthony Davis, had its world premiere at the Long Beach Opera (the final performances are June 22 and 23) — only two weeks after Netflix launched Ava Duvernay’s miniseries “When They See Us.” Both works focus on the 1989 assault of a jogger in New York’s Central Park, and the subsequent conviction of five young black men who […]
2019-06-18 23:46:00
Bill Doggett: The World Premiere of "The Central Park Five" by Anthony Davis
[…] and the tragedy of lengthy incarceration sentences for black and brown Americans for crimes not committed. Davis and Wesley’s The Central Park Five is indeed an impactful and dynamic opera that addresses all of the issues central to The Black Lives Matter Movement. The five principals who sing the roles of The Central Park Five were brilliant in their portrayals of the intricate vocal writing. They are Derrell Acon{ Antron McCray},Nathan Granner{Korey Wise} Orson Van Gay {Raymond Santana} Cedric Berry {Yusef Salaam} and Bernard Holcomb {Kevin Richardson}. They are assisted in comparable brilliance by Babatunde Akinboboye {Matias Reyes-the man who committed the crime}, Lindsay Patterson and Joelle Lamarre, the mothers of Yusef and Antron and Ashley Faatoalia who plays Antron’s father. The roles of Donald Trump, The District Attorney and The Masque are performed by Thomas Segen, Jessica Mamey and Zeffin Quinn Holis. There […]
2019-06-02 00:25:00
Yusef Salaam, Innocence Project: Our side of the story
In this August 11, 1990 file photo, Yusef Salaam enters New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan with his mother Sharonne Salaam on the third day of deliberations in the Central Park jogger trial. (AP Photo/Phillip Schoultz) Yusef Salaam writes: Since the day Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and I were wrongfully arrested for a near-fatal rape of a woman jogging in Central Park, the police and the media rushed to dehumanize us, like so many others, based on our age and race.We never had a chance to shape our side of the story, but that changes today. Through the eyes of award-winning director Ava DuVernay in the Netflix series When They See Us, we finally see a humanizing portrayal of what happened to us for a new generation to watch and learn from. […]
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