Nov 8 (Reuters) - Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino men wrongly imprisoned as teenagers in the notorious Central Park jogger rape case in 1989, won a seat on the New York City council in ...

Dr. Yusef Salaam, a member of the infamous Central Park Five, is running for New York City office. Once a teenager falsely accused and convicted of rape, Salaam is now running for New York City ...

Salaam would represent Harlem, where he grew up. Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated "Central Park Five," appears to be leading the New York City Council primary race for the 9th District in ...

New York City is naming a gate in Central Park in honor of the five men who, as teenagers, were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape of a jogger and spent years in prison before being exonerated ...

three-part series on the history of New York City’s Central Park for PBS, the network announced today. An artistic masterpiece of landscape design and an enormously ambitious work of public ...

Exonerated "Central Park Five" member Yusef Salaam is poised to win a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, marking a stunning reversal of fortune for a political newcomer who was wrongly ...