The Central Park Five: Film Screening & Discussion with Ken Burns

On March 12 at Harvard Law School, award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns and his co-producers, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, joined Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree and two Central Park Five members for a film screening and panel discussion of his new documentary "The Central Park Five," which tells the story of five Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly convicted of raping and beating a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989. The event was co-sponsored by Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, the Prison Studies Project and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.