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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAva DuVernay Brought the Real Central Park Five as Her Emmys 2019 Dates
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ava-duvernay-real-central-park-five-emmys-2019-datesAva DuVernay Brought the Real Central Park Five as Her Emmys 2019 Dates
"...such a f*ck Donald trump moment."
By P. Claire Dodson
September 23, 2019
The star-studded 2019 Emmys red carpet was stocked with television greats, from Orange Is the New Black's Laverne Cox to Game of Thrones's Emilia Clarke. But thanks to Ava DuVernay, the carpet also celebrated some of the real-life stories behind the acclaimed television when she brought the real Central Park Five to the awards show.
Ava, whose four-part Netflix series When They See Us is nominated for an Outstanding Limited Series Emmy (with 16 noms total), honored the inspiration for the show by bringing Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, and Yusef Salaam to the show with her. When They See Us tells their stories the five black and Latinx teens who were arrested and wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting a white woman in Central Park in 1989.
The show examines their lives and the systemic racism they faced throughout the trial process and its aftermath; at the time, Donald Trump was a major voice against them, calling for the death penalty in a full-page ad in The New York Times. Ava's decision to bring the now-exonerated men to the awards show felt like a major moment, especially when viewers saw them being interviewed about the series.
"The Central Park Five being on the red carpet at the Emmys is such a f*ck Donald trump moment. I am living for it," one fan tweeted. Another added, "The Central Park Five are at the Emmys with Ava DuVernay . I'm about to start bawling."
Back in August, Ava talked about her close friendship with the five men, saying even then that they would be attending the Emmys with her. She also talked at the time about the title change of the series from Central Park Five to When They See Us. "'Central Park Five' I associate with a moniker that was given to these men and thrust upon them. They did not choose it and it's not who they are," she said. "They are Korey [Wise], Antron [McCray], Raymond [Santana], Kevin [Richardson], and Yusef [Salaam]. They have mothers, they have dreams, they have families, they have beating hearts and are human beings and they're not this moniker, and I didn't want it."
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Ava DuVernay Brought the Real Central Park Five as Her Emmys 2019 Dates (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2019
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BlueWI
(1,736 posts)1. What a powerful action!
Thanks for posting this!!
malaise
(267,813 posts)2. Wonderful
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2naSalit
(86,054 posts)3. Excellent!!
Brava!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,039 posts)4. has the racist in our White House responded?
This looks like fodder for a tweetstorm in the wee hours of the morning.
bucolic_frolic
(42,674 posts)5. Amazingly
innovative and powerful. Timely too. America is not knuckling down to Trump's dark mind
dlk
(11,435 posts)6. DuVernay Rocks-Brava for Her Efforts to Shine a Light on a Grievous Wrong
Shes the best!
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)7. Tee hee hee! Way to troll TrumpleThinSkin !!
Hope he has a shit-fit and tweets accordingly.
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)8. This was a great thing to do
gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)9. Kudos, Ava DuVernay!