Two members of the Exonerated Five speak at UND Thursday, March 12, 2020

UND Today

Arrested on charges that would later be overturned; imprisoned for nearly seven years for a rape conviction that would later be vacated; made a figure of worldwide infamy while the real rapist — as DNA evidence later would confirm — roamed free; Yusef Salaam had every reason to be filled with hate.

Instead, here’s how Salaam described his goal, thinking back to when he was imprisoned in the 1980s and 90s:

Emerge “not bitter, but better.”

Read more at: http://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2020/03/not-bitter-but-better-two-members-of-the-exonerated-five-speak-at-und/