When they see us

Ava DuVernay's 'When They See Us' earned plenty of Emmys recognition. What to know about the four-part Netflix docuseries following the Central Park Five, and the real story.

The exonerated five!

The Central Park 5—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise—have taken a new collective moniker. In the wake of the renewed attention Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us has brought to their case, the men have taken on a new, more celebratory nickname: The Exonerated Five. Together they took the stage at the 2019 BET awards, introducing a performance by H.E.R with a short speech that found the five men each sharing the mic.

The case of the Central Park Five shows how police interrogation methods put the innocent in prison—and let the guilty walk free.

The When They See Us cast and the Exonerated Five celebrated the mini-series' success

In 1989, a jogger in New York City was raped in Central Park. Five men were wrongfully accused and sent to jail for the crime. Their story is now being told in Netflix's 'When They See Us.'

It was a pretty great year.

Emily Nussbaum reviews the new true-story series, which manage to make depressing, traumatic material not merely watchable but mesmerizing.