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African Americans are only 13% of the American population but a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated. They constitute 47% of the 1,900 exonerations listed in the National Registry of Exonerations (as of October 2016), and the great majority of more than 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandalsand later cleared in "group exonerations." This report examines this racial disparity in the context of the three types of crime that produce the largest numbers of exonerations in the Registry: murder, sexual assault, and drug crimes.

African Americans are only 13% of the American population but a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated. They constitute 47% of the 1,900 exonerations listed in the National Registry of Exonerations (as of October 2016), and the great majority of more than 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandalsand later cleared in "group exonerations." This report examines this racial disparity in the context of the three types of crime that produce the largest numbers of exonerations in the Registry: murder, sexual assault, and drug crimes.

African Americans are only 13% of the American population but a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated. They constitute 47% of the 1,900 exonerations listed in the National Registry of Exonerations (as of October 2016), and the great majority of more than 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandalsand later cleared in "group exonerations." This report examines this racial disparity in the context of the three types of crime that produce the largest numbers of exonerations in the Registry: murder, sexual assault, and drug crimes.

Theater program of "The Medium" by Gian-Carlo Menotti, directed by Benno D. Frank, and "The African Chief" by J. Harl Bron. This performance opened on December 10, 1949. "The African Chief" performers: Bernice H. Brown, Barbara Derris, Dorothy Ellington, Allie King, Frances McKenzie, Elaine Taylor, Pearl D. Taylor, Irene Thomas, Anne Allen, Emma J. Coleman, Johnnie M. Connon, L. Vernelia Henley, Hazel Morris, Jennie C. Parker, Anne R. Wimes, Elizabeth Hardy, Jessie C. Hill, Beatrice Miller, Mae W. Miller, Delores Powell, Joyce Wilson, Nathan Benson, Allen Hal Cowser, Merwin H. Peters, Curtis B. Ross, Charles Morris Brown, Charles Cooper, Edward J. Ellison, Edsel Peters, Norman Pope, Geogis Hill, Samuel McCurry, Allan Gross, Ellsworth M. Patterson and Elizabeth Ruby Wilson. "The Medium" performers: Betty Clymer/Gloria Whitley as Monica, Charles Bettis/Montie Dejue as Toby, Irene Beamer/Harriet Eells/Zelma George as Baba, Dorothy Greenwood/Sylvia Hunter/Eleanor Robinson as Mrs. Gobineau, Charles King/Sherman Snead as Mr. Gobineau, and Shirley Abrams/Gladys Tiff as Mrs. Nolan.