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1Hood Presents People, Politics, & Power Featuring Yusef Salaam of The Exonerated Five

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Join 1Hood Media Thursday, Oct 26th at 7pm for People, Politics, & Power, featuring a conversation with Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated 5!

In 1989, at just fifteen years young, Dr. Yusef Salaam was tried and convicted in the “Central Park Jogger” case along with four other Black and Latinx young men. The Exonerated Five spent between seven to 13 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit, until their sentences were overturned in 2002. Since then, they have received a multi-million dollar settlement from the city of New York for its injustice and have been profiled in award-winning films, including The Central Park Five documentary from Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon and most recently the Emmy award-winning Netflix limited series When They See Us, written and directed by Ava DuVernay.

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