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 to�the�refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change...