Yusef Salaam

One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. ?Boys just being boys? turns out to be true only when those boys are white.Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal Shahid?s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn?t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns totherefuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his...