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Yusef Salaam of Central Park 5 to run for City Council in Harlem

Por: New York Daily News Politics February 04, 2023

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Yusef Salaam, a member of the Central Park 5, said Friday that he intends to run for a City Council seat in Harlem, challenging Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan. Salaam, one of five Black and Latino teens convicted but later exonerated in the 1989 rape of a white jogger, said he will announce a campaign focused on public safety, racial justice and housing equity on Saturday. “This is not politics as usual,” Salaam, 48, said by phone,... + full article



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