Yusef Salaam, an exonerated member of the Central Park Five has won the Democratic primary for a New York City Council seat in Harlem, CNN projects, after a reallocation of ranked-choice voting ...

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 Harlem, ...

Yusef Salaam, who as a child was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned for the rape of a woman jogging in Central Park, took a commanding lead Tuesday in a Democratic ...

Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated "Central Park Five," has won a Democratic primary for a seat on the New York City Council, all but assuring him of eventual victory. It’s an improbable feat for a ...

Yusef Salaam, the Central Park 5 defendant exonerated in the infamous 1989 Central Park jogger rape case, said he's ready to work arm-in-arm with the NYPD to improve Harlem's quality of life as the ...

In 1989, Yusef Salaam was one of five teenagers arrested and wrongly imprisoned after the brutal rape of a jogger in New York’s Central Park. They were exonerated in 2002 when DNA evidence linked ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Tuesday was Primary Day in New York City. All 51 City Council seats were open in redrawn districts. There were also judges and district attorney candidates on the ballot.

Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” has officially won the Democratic primary for a seat on the New York city council, almost ensuring his eventual election to the seat.