There was no question in my mind, like many people in New York City, that they were innocent, he had not yet been exonerated. Ibi Zoboi: We met in 1999, while Yusef was visiting College I already knew the story of the Central Park Five. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. (Their story was the subject of Ava DuVernay’s 2019 Netflix series, When They See Us.) We met over Zoom to discuss what Salaam describes as their “labor of love,” a story loosely inspired by Salaam’s experiences. This electrifying story was co-authored by Ibi Zoboi, author of National Book Award finalist American Street (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins, 2017) and Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, the group of Black and Latinx boys who were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park. 1) is a verse novel about 16-year-old Amal, a Black boy and passionate artist who ends up in juvenile detention following an altercation with White boys. Punching the Air (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, Sept.
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