TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salaam,Yusef
TI  - Better, not bitter: living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice 
SN  - 9781538705001
AV  - HV9468.S244 A3 2021
U1  - 365/.6092 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Grand Central Publishing
KW  - Salaam, Yusef,
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - False imprisonment
KW  - Judicial error
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Memoirs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "They didn't know who they had." So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from child to man, and gained a spiritual perspective on life. Yusef learned that we're all "born on purpose, with a purpose." Despite having confronted the racist heart of America while being "run over by the spiked wheels of injustice," Yusef channeled his energy and pain into something positive, not just for himself but for other marginalized people and communities. Better Not Bitter is the first time that one of the now Exonerated Five is telling his individual story, in his own words. Yusef writes his narrative: growing up Black in central Harlem in the '80s, being raised by a strong, fierce mother and grandmother, his years of incarceration, his reentry, and exoneration. Yusef connects these stories to lessons and principles he learned that gave him the power to survive through the worst of life's experiences. He inspires readers to accept their own path, to understand their own sense of purpose. With his intimate personal insights, Yusef unpacks the systems built and designed for profit and the oppressionof Black and Brown people." --
ER  -