Coronavirus, teen trauma and mental health | COVID-19 Update

 

Teens are especially hard hit by the psychological toll the COVID crisis has taken. Instead of going to class and hanging out with friends, teenagers have been banished to a life of screens, solitude and uncertainty.

Exonerated 'Central Park Five' Survivor Dr. Yusef Salaam on Black Trauma

Dr. Yusef Salaam was imprisoned as a member of the Central Park Five, a group of Black and Hispanic teenagers who were falsely charged and convicted of an attack on a jogger in Central Park. Though much of the public called for their execution, including future President Donald Trump, the Central Park 5 were eventually exonerated and have shared their experience as a warning against systemic police racism and police brutality, as seen in the documentary series When They See Us.