Featured Image: FILE – New York City Council candidate Yusef Salaam speaks during an interview with The Associated Press.
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Yusef Salaam will represent Harlem District Nine
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
AP: “Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam won a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, completing a stunning reversal of fortune decades after he was wrongly imprisoned in an infamous rape case.”
“Salaam, a Democrat, will represent a central Harlem district on the City Council, having run unopposed for the seat in one of many local elections held across New York state Tuesday. He won his primary election in a landslide.”
“All things work together for the good.”
“AIl things work together for the good” and this is the testimony of Yusef Salaam.
“Yusef Salaam’s victory comes more than two decades after DNA evidence was used to overturn the convictions of Salaam and four other Black and Latino men in the 1989 rape and beating of a white jogger in Central Park. Salaam was arrested at age 15 and imprisoned for almost seven years.”
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