By Nelson A. King
Prominent Caribbean attorney,
civil rights advocate, and
political and community activist
Colin A. Moore died in New York
on Sunday, close friends and colleagues
said.
Patricia Jordon-Langford — a
close family friend, president of
the Brooklyn-based Guyana Tri-
State Alliance, Inc. and Board
Member of the Guyana Cultural
Association of New York — said
on Monday that Guyanese-born,
Brooklyn resident Moore “passed
away quietly.”
Another close friend, Grenadian
Gerry Hopkins, a community
activist and publicist in
Brooklyn, described Moore as
“a stalwart Caribbean-American
father, husband, activist, lawyer,
lecturer, politician, analyst and
community organizer.”
He said Moore, who was born
in Auchlyne Village, Corentyne
Coast, Berbice, Guyana, on April
24, 1941, “sadly died of natural
causes at the age of 80 in New
York City.”
Moore was admitted to the
New York State Bar in February
1979, Jordon-Langford said.
“Colin Moore was a skilled
and tactical attorney who represented
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many high-profile cases
in New York that sometimes
provoked the ire of the reactionaries,”
she said. “He was a civil
rights advocate and a proponent
for justice, and a patriot for his
country of birth, Guyana.”
Jordon-Langford noted that,
in 2019, the American Documentary
Crime Drama television
miniseries, “When They
See Us”, directed by Ava DuVernay
for Netflix, was released to
wide acclaim, based on events
of the 1989 Central Park Jogger’s
case.
The film explored the lives
of the five Black and Latino
male suspects, who were falsely
accused, prosecuted and falsely
convicted for the rape and
assault of a white woman in
Central Park in Manhattan.
Jordon-Langford said that
Moore was the lawyer who represented
of one of the “Central
Park Five” suspects, Korey Wise,
16.
“And he fought valiantly
to prove that the youths were
coerced against a blanket of
media frenzy,” she said. “Thirty
years later, they were all exonerated
after spending six to 13
years in prison. At that time,
they were all minors.”
Jordon-Langford said it was
“a terrible miscarriage of justice,”
adding that “DNA proved
that none of the ‘Central Park
Five’, as they were labeled, were
guilty.”
But she said “a serial rapist
who confessed, Matias Reyes,
was the single perpetrator.”
Jordon-Langford said Chukwudi
Iwuji, a Nigerian-British
actor, portrayed Colin Moore,
and that American actor Jharrel
Jerome won the Emmy Award
for lead actor for his portrayal of
Korey Wise.
“Attorney Colin A. Moore your
work is done on this earth,” she
said. “You left an indelible legacy
of civil rights activism. Rest in
eternal peace.”
Former Brooklyn Supreme
The late Caribbean attorney and political activist, Colin
Moore. Gerry Hopkins
Court Justice Reynold Mason,
a Grenadian, said Moore was “a
standout attorney in the Central
Park jogger case in which he
represented Korey Wise.
“He was a noted public speaker
and political analyst,” said
Mason of his former colleague
and close friend. “The people
of New York, and the people of
the Caribbean in particular, owe
much to this trailblazing Caribbean
pioneer. His presence will
be sorely missed.”
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