Yusef Salaam of Central Park Five has been unjustly imprisoned

Yusef Salaam is one of the so-called “Central Park Five,” who became known as the “Five Exonerated”. (Subscribe:

It was a case of racial injustice that shocked America three decades ago, when five black and Hispanic teenagers were jailed in 1989 for gang rape of a woman in Central Park, New York. But years later, behind him, the “Central Park Five” was exonerated in 2002. Now, one of them, Yusef Salaam, has written a book of poetry in collaboration with the author Ibi Zoboi, based on his experiences. Yusef talks to Krishnan about how he remembers the experience that shaped his life, why he believes racism is on the run, and why 2020 is a symbolic year. ——- See more of our explanatory series here – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXjqQf1xYLQ6bu-iixvoFTVsiXQVlVniX
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