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race, prison, justice: illuminating story through the arts virtual gallery

New collaborative virtual gallery by the CFA Prison Arts Project encourages activism

Daily Free Press Staff April 28, 2021
The “living gallery” highlights stories U.S. incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals.
Yusef Salaam discussed the importance of education and the effects of incarceration on young men of color in his speech, “Born on Purpose and With a Purpose,” at the Tsai Performance Center Friday. JACOB COLLING/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

One of the Exonerated Five says everyone is born on purpose, with a purpose

Mita Kataria March 4, 2020
Yusef Salaam, member of the “Exonerated Five,” wrongly accused and convicted of sexually assaulting a Central Park jogger in 1989, has taken up the fight against the unfair criminal justice system, and shared his lecture “Born on Purpose and With a Purpose” at BU on Friday.
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