Linda Fairstein, the former prosecutor linked to the Central Park Five case, has reached a settlement in her defamation lawsuit against Netflix and director Ava DuVernay concerning the 2019 docuseries "When They See Us.

We love and celebrate our finest Black creatives like award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay, but there are not enough like her.

The searing TV series on the plight of the Central Park Five created a memorable Emmy moment Sunday when the five exonerated men stood and were honored at the awards show. The surrounds true story of five minority teens coerced into confessing to a rape they didn’t commit in 1989

Ava Duvernay’s gripping four-part series, “When They See Us,” which impacted 23 million Netflix accounts worldwide, has racked up a whopping 16 Emmy Award nominations. “Thank you to the real men for inviting me to tell their story,” wrote the director, co-writer and producer.

Academy Award nominee Ava Duvernay’s four-part Netflix series, “When They See Us” is a horrifying and heartbreaking tale of five innocent black and Latino teenagers, known as the “Central Park Five,” being found guilty of rape and jailed—though they never committed the crime.