An entryway to Central Park has been dedicated to remember the injustice that imprisoned five Black and Latino teenagers after they were wrongly convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger
Master drummer Baba Don Babatunde, far left, and civil rights activist Queen Mother Moore, far right, lead a spiritual moment, during the Central Park gate-naming ceremony to honor the five men exonerated after being wrongfully convicted as teenagers for the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park, including Yusef Salaam, seated third from left, Raymond Santana Jr., seated fourth from left, Monday Dec. 19, 2022, in New York.
Monday was the first time Raymond Santana, another of the men, now deep in his 40s, has returned to Central Park since that fateful day 33 years ago. left with her with permanent injuries and no memory of the assault. The high-profile incident prompted police to round up Black and Brown men and boys in connection with the rape.Soon after, the convictions of the Central Park Five were thrown out in 2002 after the men served six to 13 years in prison.
The gate, they said, would stand as reminder of the injustice of the past but also of those still being committed today.
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