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Yusef Salaam has announced his candidacy for a New York City Council seat in a Harlem-based district.Salaam is among the erroneously convicted "Central Park Five," a group of Black and Brown teenagers who were suspected of beating and raping a White woman in 1989.Salaam is set to face off against New York Assembly members Al
Some consider Yusef Salaam a folk hero as a member of the “Central Park Five,” the group of teenagers wrongly convicted of raping a white jogger in a brutal attack 34 years ago. Now he's banking on his painful past to help win a seat on the New York City Council. (June 22) (AP Video/Robert Bumsted)
Dr. Yusef Salaam, a member of the famous Central Park Five, is running for city council in New York City's Central Harlem.
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People who have pleaded guilty to crimes they didn’t commit would have an easier time challenging their convictions under a bill passed by New York lawmakers this week. It passed