Motivational speaker and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam discussed his time incarcerated and his spiritual motivation during a Family Action Network event Thursday. Salaam was wrongfully convicted and later exonerated in the 1989 Central Park jogger case , in which he and four other then-teenage boys were accused of assaulting a woman. He recently published his memoir “Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice,” which details his upbringing and the lessons he learned from his fight for exoneration. The event was held in conversation with Reuben Jonathan Miller, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.