Name Drop San Diego

Anthony Davis, 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner

Episode Summary

Davis, a UCSD professor, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in music for composing “The Central Park Five,” an opera about five black and Latino teenagers in New York City who were wrongly convicted after a white woman was attacked in Central Park in 1989. 

Episode Notes

Davis, a UCSD professor, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in music for composing “The Central Park Five,” an opera about five black and Latino teenagers in New York City who were wrongly convicted after a white woman was attacked in Central Park in 1989.