Dear TCL Readers: Last November, around the time when the Mystery Writers of America awarded, and then rescinded, its Grand Master designation to Linda Fairstein, was when I learned of Ava DuVernay’s limited series Netflix show about the Central Park Five case. I was intrigued because I sensed it would say something new and important about a story that has been written a great deal about over three decades, much of it in wrongheaded, reprehensible ways, but also in illuminating and necessary ways. What happened on the night of April 19, 1989 set in motion all sorts of narratives about America, race, mass incarceration, justice, and society that we’re nowhere close to undoing.
The Crime Lady: The Central Park Narrative
The Crime Lady: The Central Park Narrative
The Crime Lady: The Central Park Narrative
Dear TCL Readers: Last November, around the time when the Mystery Writers of America awarded, and then rescinded, its Grand Master designation to Linda Fairstein, was when I learned of Ava DuVernay’s limited series Netflix show about the Central Park Five case. I was intrigued because I sensed it would say something new and important about a story that has been written a great deal about over three decades, much of it in wrongheaded, reprehensible ways, but also in illuminating and necessary ways. What happened on the night of April 19, 1989 set in motion all sorts of narratives about America, race, mass incarceration, justice, and society that we’re nowhere close to undoing.