Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Lopez is the rarely mentioned and seemingly forgotten sixth co-defendant who was arrested and charged at age 15, along with ...

In 1989, five young men of color were accused of beating and raping a white woman in Central Park—and now their story is being told in Ava DuVernay's Netflix miniseries When They See Us. The men, ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera features Donald J. Trump, whose 1989 full-page newspaper ad sought to demonize the young men wrongly accused of rape. By Robin Pogrebin The $160 million Davis Center, ...

After Raymond Santana and the rest of the young men in the Central Park jogger rape case were exonerated of all charges in 2002, he knew that he wanted to start reclaiming the life that was stolen ...

One of the Central Park 5 defendants intends to review the massive amount of information just released by city officials about the controversial 1989 case. “I didn’t look at them yet, but I plan to,” ...

More than three decades after he and five others were wrongfully accused of raping a white woman in New York City, one of the lesser-known defendants in the infamous Central Park jogger case had a ...

Five black and Latino men — wrongfully convicted 24 years ago in the sensational Central Park jogger case that whipped New York into a racial frenzy — have reached a $40 million settlement with the ...

Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, told a packed room full of criminal justice students at Purdue University Northwest Thursday to “do your job” if they want to effect change. The system is ...

A sixth man who was a co-defendant of the Central Park Five – a group of Black and Hispanic teens who were convicted of beating and raping a woman in the famed New York City landmark – had his ...

New York City is naming a gate in Central Park in honor of the five Black and Latino men who as teenagers were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 beating and rape of a white woman. The words “Gate of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related ...