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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

A Conversation with Dr. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay welcome Dr. Yusef Salaam, motivational speaker, author and member of the Exonerated Five to discuss life after his wrongful conviction at the age of 15, and growing to become better, not bitter, in the face of injustice. Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay  Guest: Dr. Yusef Salaam  Producers: Trudy Joseph and Donnie Beacham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh yes we have a very very special episode of higher learning today where we're going to be joined

0:07.2

By a man who's seen firsthand

0:10.2

What the American

0:12.2

Cardinal system can do to you his name is you steps along

0:15.6

He is one of the five boys

0:18.6

That was unfairly prosecuted and then convicted of a crime they did not commit in Central Park, New York

0:25.0

You guys know them as the Central Park five they prefer to be called the exonerated five

0:31.7

He has a new book coming out about many things but one of them is about how you walk around

0:37.8

Having been wronged by the system, but you turn that bitterness into bitterness

0:43.4

And this was an incredibly powerful talk and we're happy to have you steps along

0:49.1

Here's the interview Rachel and I did we are delighted to have somebody very special joy in us today

0:54.2

Um someone whose life experience and learned experience are just simply

1:01.9

sensational and

1:03.4

Really worth everybody diving into and knowing about so much of this brother's life

1:09.0

What he's overcome and what he's become speak directly to some of the things that

1:13.8

We talk about on this very podcast the man's name is Dr.

1:18.1

Yousef Salam and he is a prison reform activist

1:20.7

motivational speaker and a justice seeker he is got a brand new book

1:27.2

That it came out this year. It's called better not bitter

1:31.3

living on purpose and pursuit

1:34.2

Of racial justice but came out earlier this year now

1:38.0

You see the word better not bitter you guys might think hey, why does it start that way because

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