New York City Councilman Yusef Salaam is facing calls to step down as head of the council’s influential public safety committee after a controversial traffic stop revealed he was motoring around the ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — New York City Council member Yusef Salaam never envisioned himself as a politician or going to prison, though he said both were possible in America. “I definitely did not ...

Dr. Yusef Salaam is the city councilman for New York’s Ninth Congressional District. He continues to use his platform to share his story with others and educate the public about the impact of ...

New York City needs more housing. Everyone, from left to right, agrees. So a Harlem Community Board voting down a proposed ...

If he ends up doing so, he’d be following in the footsteps of Central Harlem City Council Member Yusef Salaam who in 2023 soared to victory decades after he was wrongly imprisoned as a teenager in the ...

Yusef Salaam, member of the New York City Council, on stage at the Democratic National Convention in August. (Kevin Wurm/Reuters) In a back-and-forth over race, Kamala Harris sought to cast Donald ...

When They See Us came to the streaming platform in 2019 and covers the famous 'jogger case' of a woman who was assaulted ...

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 ...

Yusef Salaam was a member of the "Central Park Five" who were convicted and imprisoned for the rape and beating of a jogger in New York City in 1989. He and the other four men were later ...

New York City Council member Yusef Salaam never envisioned himself as a politician or going to prison, though he said both were possible in America. "I definitely did not see it coming," Salaam ...

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 ...