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The former president still cant wrap his head around the exonerated "Central Park Five."
"He has never changed, and he never will," Yusef Salaam said.
Karen Attiah, a co-chair for this year's National Association of Black Journalists Convention, said she is stepping down after Trump said he will attend.
Salaams win comes more than two decades after he and four other Black and Latino men were exonerated in the 1989 rape and beating of a white Central Park jogger.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
A member of the Central Park Five is a step closer to winning a seat on the New York City Council.
"The truth of the matter is we are not living in the same reality," said Yusef Salaam of Republicans' remarks on the indictment.
Trump has declined to apologize for taking out full-page ads in 1989 calling for the execution of the now-vindicated men who were teens at the time.
Gate of the Exonerated will honor the five men who, as teenagers, were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape of a jogger and spent years in prison.
Steven Lopez, who was 15 when accused with five other teens of raping and assaulting a woman, had a related robbery conviction overturned.
Messages show the former prosecutor helping well-connected New Yorkers navigate her old sex crimes unit.