Please view the Ken Burns, David McMahon & Sarah Burns documentary film, The Central Park Five.
Wesley Lowery, "They Can't Kill Us All": Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement (New York: Little, Brown, 2016) (But . . . they will try.).
Michael Denzel Smith, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education (New York: Nation Books, 2016) (From the book jacket: When Trayvon Martin was killed, Mychal Densel Smith had just turned twenty-five. He had not prepared for life at twenty-five, believing, simply, that he wouldn't make it that far. Too many young black boys never reach adulthood. But Mychal realized he had an opportunity and an obligation to ask himself, How do you learn to be a black man in America? [] Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching is Mychal's attempt to answer that question. . . . ").
John Edgar Wideman, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (New York: Scribner, 2016) ("The fact that Till, McMurray, and the other alleged perpetrators were colored, plus the fact that Till and McMurray were reported in the vicinity of Civitavecchia the night of the crimes occurred, is enough to convince army officers the accused are guilty. No further burden of proof is demanded from the prosecution. Privates Till and McMurray are sentenced to death on the basis of being the wrong color in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wrong color, wrong place, wrong time, a mantra. A crime that over the course of our nation's history has transformed countless innocent people of color into guilty people." Id. at 106.).
