Salaam, Yusef: - Dr.
You can find him online at www.yusefspeaks.com..
He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Sanovia, and their children.
He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama, among other honors.
Yusef is now a poet, activist, and inspirational speaker.
Now known as the Exonerated Five, their story has been documented in the award-winning film The Central Park Five by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon and in Ava DuVernay\'s highly acclaimed series When They See Us .
In 2002, after the young men spent years of their lives behind bars, their sentences were overturned.
Yusef Salaam was just fifteen years old when his life was upended after being wrongly convicted with four other boys in the Central Park jogger case.
Salaam, Yusef: - Dr
