Amy Cooper, the white woman who was recorded on a cell phone video in 2020 calling the police on a Black man who was birdwatching in New York City’s Central Park and claiming he was “threatening” her, is now suing her former employer, accusing them of firing her without properly…
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Central Park Five Prosecutor Linda Fairstein Losing Publisher, Awards, Forced to Resign from Boards
After helping to wrongfully convict the Central Park Five profiled in Netflix’s “When They See Us,” a miniseries directed by Ava DuVernay, Linda Fairstein has been dropped by her publisher, Dutton. Fairstein was the top Manhattan sexual crimes prosecutor in the 1989 case where five Black and Latino teens were…
Archived: Statue of Surgeon, Who Experimented on Enslaved Black Women, Removed from Central Park
After 84 years in New York City’s Central Park, the Department of Parks and Recreation removed a statue of 19th century gynecologist J. Marion Sims on Tuesday. In his medical research, Sims took advantage of societal dehumanization of Black people by operating (without anesthesia or consent) on enslaved women. Referred…