#322 A Conversation With Yusef Salaam Of The Exonerated 5

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Kaitlin and Amanda speak with Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi to discuss their new graphic novel “Punching The Air,” inspired by Salaam’s experience being wrongfully incarcerated as a teenager as part of the Exonerated 5. Salaam describes the sometimes traumatic experience of writing about an incarcerated teen, what he hopes readers absorb from the book in a time of racial reckoning, and how he hopes to share the power of art with a new generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betches media presents.
0:01.7	A lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge.
0:03.9	You know the testing down.
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0:06.7	No justice, no peace.
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0:10.7	The Betches Supp Podcast.
0:13.0	With all due respect, that's a bunch of malarky.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome back to the Supp Podcast.
0:20.0	I'm Amanda Diggerman.
0:21.0	And I'm Caitlin Bird.
0:22.0	And today we are here with authors and
0:24.7	activist Dr. Yousif Salaam and I'm a boy. Yousif Sala was just 15 when he was
0:29.5	wrongfully sentenced in the Central Park jogger case along with four other teenagers who
0:33.7	we now know is the exonerated five.
0:36.0	Us of Salaam is a poet, a prison reform activist, and author with a lifetime
0:40.3	achievement award from President Obama along with numerous other honors.
0:44.5	We do a 30 minute podcast, so I can't list them all.
0:47.6	Ibizaboy is a writer with an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
0:51.9	Among other titles, she's authored the novel
0:53.8	American Street which was a National Book Award finalist and she also edits the
0:57.5	Black Enough anthology. Together they've written punching the air of a novel
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