Netflix has released a new trailer for Ava DuVernay’s four-part miniseries about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. In 1989, five teenage boys--four black and one Hispanic--were rounded up at random and charged with the horrific rape of a white female jogger in Central Park. There was no physical evidence linking the boys to the crime, but the cry for “justice” railroaded these young men through the legal system and put them in jail for over a decade. This new trailer focuses primarily on their lives once they were released from prison. I started …

Netflix has released the full trailer for Ava DuVernay’s upcoming miniseries When They See Us. The four-part series is based on the injustice faced by the Central Park Five, five juveniles—four African American and one Hispanic—who were wrongly accused of raping a female jogger in Central Park in 1989. The series spans 25 years as the teenagers become men and fight their incarceration. DuVernay is making some of the most exciting work out there right now, from films (Selma) to documentaries (13th) and now to a miniseries with When They See Us. Judging by this trailer, …

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