Since its debut on April 5^th, 2014 at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and nationally on September 26^th, 2014 at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference, Pardons of Innocence: The Wilmington Ten is a two hour documentary that re-accounts the rugged history that surrounded the desegregation of the New Hanover County Public School in North Carolina during the late 1960’s through 1971. The incidents that took place here are very reminiscent of what we all have witnessed happen this summer in Ferguson, Missouri. The events that led up to the false prosecution of the eight Black male students, White female community organizer and fierce civil rights activist, Reverend Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr., for protesting the racial injustices that took place. This invigorating documentary was produced, written and directed by Wilmington Journal staff writer Cash Michaels. The film traces how the Black Press pushed for and succeeded in the official and climactic exoneration of the Wilmington Ten in 2012 by North Carolina Governor Beverly Purdue.