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-racism
-poems (written in verse)
-art
-White supremacy
-crimes
-accusations (false???)

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A beautiful book and an important read. #punchingtheair #bookreview #bookrecommendations #yabooktok #booktok

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A beautiful book and an important read. #punchingtheair #bookreview #bookrecommendations #yabooktok #booktok
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Yusef Salaam (1975-) was an African-American man from Harlem, New York City who was wrongfully convicted of rape and attempted murder in the 1990 Central Park jogger case and sentenced to 10 years in a detention facility. After his release, he became an activist, speaking about his experiences.

Yusef Salaam was born in Harlem, New York City in 1975, the son of Sharon Salaam. He was friends with Korey Wise during their high school years, and, in 1989, Salaam was wrongfully arrested by Detective John Taglioni as a suspect in the Central Park jogger case; Wise was invited to accompany Salaam and support him, but the two of them were both interrogated as suspects. Salaam was deprived of food, drink, or sleep for an entire day, and his family received death threats after Donald Trump called for the death penalty to be reinstated. He was sentenced to 5-10 years in a juvenile detention facility after being found guilty, despite the efforts of his lawyer Bobby Burns (his mother's divorce lawyer, who was unequipped for a criminal trial) and the other boys' attorneys. He was released in 2002 when the trial was vacated, and he was awarded $7.1 million in recompense for his time served; he went on to work for a telemarketing company, and he was later awarded a lifetime achievement award from President Barack Obama in 2016.

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Yusef Salaam (1975-) was an African-American man from Harlem, New York City who was wrongfully convicted of rape and attempted murder in the 1990 Central Park jogger case and sentenced to 10 years in a detention facility. After his release, he became an activist, speaking about his experiences.

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Ibi Zoboi is a Haitian-American author of young adult fiction. She is best known for her young adult novel American Street, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult's Literature in 2017.

Born in Haiti as Pascale Philantrope, Zoboi immigrated from Port-au-Prince with her mother at age four and grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the 1980s. The move was hard on Zoboi, who found Brooklyn to be lonely, as her family was in Haiti and her mother worked. She cites the move from Haiti to New York as one that defined her. Four years later, Zoboi returned to Haiti for a visit with her mother. When they tried to return to the United States, Zoboi was not allowed to return. Zoboi stayed in Haiti with relatives for three months while her mother worked to get her back. After her return, her teachers placed her in an English as a Second Language course when she was in the fifth grade, wrongly assuming that Zoboi couldn't speak English This caused her to feel "invisible". She turned to poetry and writing as a way for her to be seen.

Before becoming an author, Zoboi worked in at a newspaper and in a bookstore. Interested in writing, she took classes in creative writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and graduated with her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Zoboi took her husband's surname at marriage and changed her first name to Ibi, a Yoruba word for "rebirth", reflecting her birth name, Pascale, which is related to Easter.

Zoboi began her writing career as an investigative reporter and worked among others with Octavia Butler. Zoboi is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop as well as a winner of the 2011 Gulliver Travel Grant. In 2018, Zoboi received the Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature from the Library of Congress.' While working on her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, she was chosen as a finalist for the New Visions Award before publishing her debut novel. Through Kickstarter, Zoboi was able to fund the Daughters of Anacaona Writing Project, a creative writing workshop in Port-au-Prince. According to Zoboi, one of the reasons she started this workshop was to give Haitian girls a voice and ways to see themselves in literature. The project was named for the Taino queen Anacaona. The project helps both Haitian girls, as well as Caribbean girls. It began in 2009 and went until 2014.

Prior to publishing her first novel, Zoboi wrote short stories including one story titled The Farming of Gods which was published in 2012 and features a setting of a post apocalyptic Haiti following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. The Farming of Gods is an example of Afrofuturism and combines aspects of traditional Haitian belief systems with futuristic and dystopian concepts.

Her debut novel American Street, about a Haitian teen whose mother gets detained when they first immigrate to America, explores magical realism, immigration, and voodou culture, all based on the author's on experiences as a Haitian-American immigrant. It was published by Balzer + Bray in 2017. American Street was chosen as a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult's Literarature in 2017. The novel is set in Detroit, Michigan because she wanted the story to be told according to her experiences in Bushwick in the 1980s.[citation needed ]

Zoboi edited the young adult anthology Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America, published in 2019 by Balzer + Bray. Black Enough received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist.

Zoboi's 2018 novel Pride is a re-telling of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, set in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, Zoboi's 2019 middle-grade novel, is about Ebony-Grace, a girl who is sent from Alabama to help her grandfather in Harlem in the 1980s and is her first middle grade book. As a young black girl who enjoys the science-fiction worlds of Star Wars and Star Trek, Ebony-Grace is seen as an "ice cream sandwich" by her peers; brown on the outside, but white on the inside.

Young adult fiction

Middle grade fiction

Short stories and essays

"Old Flesh Song" in Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, edited by Sheree Thomas (Aspect, 2005)

"The Harem" in Haiti Noir, edited by Edwige Danticat (Akashic Books, 2010)

"The Fire in Your Sky" in Crossed Genres Issue 33: Villains, edited by Bart R. Leib and Kay T. Holt (Crossed Genres Publications, 2011)

"The Fire in Your Sky" in Under the Needle's Eye (Smashwords, 2012) (with stories by Susan Ee, Emily Mah, Kini Ibura Salaam)

"The Farming of Gods" (Konbit, 2012)

"A is for Ayiti" (One Moore Book, 2012)

"The Farming of Gods" in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, edited by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall (Rosarium Publishing, 2013)

"Forgiving My Father, The Serial Rapist" (The Rumpus, 2015)

"Hourglass" in Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet (HMH, 2018)

Title TBA in Dear Heartbreak: YA Authors and Teens on the Dark Side of Love, edited by Heather Demetrios (Henry Holt, 2018)

"The (R)Evolution of Nigeria Jones" in Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (also editor) (Balzer + Bray, 2019)

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Ibi Zoboi is a Haitian-American author of young adult fiction. She is best known for her young adult novel American Street, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult's Literature in 2017. Born in Haiti as Pascale Philantrope, Zoboi immigrated from Port-au-Prince with her mother at age four and grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the 1980s.

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Interview

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The Story Behind Punching the Air | with Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

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My Life As An Ice Cream Sandwich, Pride, American Street, and more...

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Yusef Salaam Books | List of books by author Yusef Salaam

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Looking for books by Yusef Salaam? See all books authored by Yusef Salaam, including Punching the Air, and Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice, and more on ThriftBooks.com.

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https://www.instagram.com/ibizoboi/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CTTIAz3r9V6/

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The story that I thought

was my life

didn’t start on the day

I was born

Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white.

The story that I think

will be my life

starts today

Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’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 it?