Harlem Councilman Yusef Salaam became the first New York politician to receive a campaign contribution from Mayor Eric Adams, filings show — but weeks later, Salaam endorsed Council ...

Yusef Salaam-- one of the wrongfully convicted Central Park Five -- says the country is living through the "American ...

In a stark reflection of the current socio-political climate, Yusef Salaam – one of the wrongfully convicted members of the Central Park Five – recently conveyed his concerns about the state ...

Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, spoke at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History about his wrongful conviction and journey into politics. Salaam reflected on the ...

Notre Dame hosted several events for Death Penalty Abolition Week, inviting speakers from a variety of backgrounds.

Yusef Salaam was one of those five boys. Nearly seven years passed before he was exonerated, but he was left to live with the weight of an accusation that cost him his childhood and left him to ...

The Central Park Five film explores the story of the miscarriage of justice that engulfed Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise, the black and Latino ...

That was how Yusef Salaam described his experience as one of the Central Park Five, a group of Black and Hispanic teenage boys who were wrongly convicted of a 1989 rape and spent between six and ...