Yusef Salaam, Poet, Activist, and Inspirational Speaker
Yusef Salaam was one of a group known as "The Central Park Five" who were convicted and incarcerated for the brutal rape of a young woman in Central Park in 1989.
Since his release, Yusef has committed himself to advocating and educating people on the issues of false confessions, police brutality and misconduct, press ethics and bias, race and law, and the disparities in America’s criminal justice system. In 2013, documentarians Ken and Sarah Burns released the documentary, “The Central Park Five,” which told of this travesty from the perspective of Yusef and his cohorts.
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