{"id":9634,"date":"2019-09-03T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=9634"},"modified":"2019-09-03T13:47:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:47:33","slug":"distinguished-speaker-series-yusef-salaam","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/event\/distinguished-speaker-series-yusef-salaam\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Speaker Series ~ Yusef Salaam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yusef Salaam | Feb. 24 | Alumni Arena<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Criminal Justice Advocate and Member of the Central Park Five<\/i><\/p>\n

Free tickets will be available for graduate students to reserve online<\/a> as of February 9th.\u00a0 1 per UB ID. Tickets will be available for pickup at the UB Ticket Office (221 Student Union) on February 12th.\u00a0 As of February 24th any tickets still available will be given away to any UB GSA student (regardless if they have reserved it online) at the UB Ticket Office until 3pm.\u00a0 After that, any remaining tickets will be available at the door.<\/p>\n

*PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PICK UP YOUR PHYSICAL TICKET(S) FROM THE UB TICKET OFFICE IN 221 STUDENT UNION.\u00a0 THE EMAILED TICKET IS ONLY A VOUCHER AND WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR ADMISSION BY THE VENDOR.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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UB’s 44th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Keynote Speaker<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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More About Yusef Salaam<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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On April 19, 1989, a young woman was brutally raped and left for dead in New York City\u2019s Central Park. Five boys\u2014four black and one Latino\u2014were tried and convicted of the crime in a frenzied case that rocked the city. They became known collectively as the Central Park Five.<\/p>\n

Their convictions were vacated in 2002 after spending between seven and thirteen years of their lives behind bars. The unidentified DNA in the Central Park jogger case, unlinked to any of the five, had finally met its owner, a convicted murderer and serial rapist who confessed. The convictions of the boys, now men, were overturned and they were exonerated. One of those boys, Yusef Salaam, was just 15 years old when his life was upended and changed forever.<\/p>\n

Since his release, Salaam 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\u2019s criminal justice system. In 2013, Ken and Sarah Burns and David McMahon released the documentary \u201cThe Central Park Five,\u201d which told of this travesty from the perspective of Salaam and his cohorts.<\/p>\n

In 2014,\u00a0the Central Park Five\u00a0received a multi-million dollar settlement from the city of New York for its grievous injustice against them. Salaam was awarded an honorary doctorate that same year and received the President’s Life Time Achievement Award in 2016 from President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

In 2018, he was appointed to the board of the Innocence Project. In May 2019, Netflix released the limited series titled \u201cWhen They See Us\u201d based on the true story of Salaam and the other members of the Central Park Five. The series was created and directed by Ava DuVernay; executive producers included Oprah Winfrey and Robert De Niro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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