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New York City Council candidate Yusef Salaam speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ member set to win council seat as New York votes in local elections

By Anthony Izaguirre - Associated Press

FILE-New York City Council candidate Yusef Salaam speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in New York. Salaam, one of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” has won the Democratic primary, Wednesday, July 7, all but assuring him a seat on the New York City Council. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Freed from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, ‘Central Park Five’ member wins NYC Council race

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

New York City Council candidate Yusef Salaam speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, May 24, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Exonerated member of ‘Central Park Five’ takes lead in New York City Council primary

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

Yusef Salaam, one of the falsely imprisoned teenagers in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, speaks during a news interview while getting petition signatures for his campaign for New York City Council's 9th District, March 1, 2023, in New York. Some consider Salaam a folk hero as a member of the “Central Park Five,” the group of teenagers wrongly convicted of raping a white jogger 34 years ago. Now he is banking on his painful past to help win a seat on the New York City Council. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Once wrongly imprisoned for notorious rape, member of ‘Central Park Five’ is running for office

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

FILE - Honoree Yusef Salaam poses at the ACLU SoCal's 25th Annual Luncheon in Los Angeles on June 7, 2019. Salaam, one of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault of a Central Park jogger, has a memoir coming out in the spring. Grand Central Publishing announced Monday that it had acquired Yusef Salaam’s “Better, Not Bitter: Living On Purpose in The Pursuit of Racial Justice.” (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Yusef Salaam writing memoir about his wrongful imprisonment

Associated Press

This combination photo shows the cover of &quot;Punching the Air&quot; by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, left, and Salaam at the ACLU SoCal's 25th Annual Luncheon in Los Angeles on June 7, 2019. Salaam, one of the former “Central Park Five” is teaming with an acclaimed children's author Zoboi on a young adult novel with a personal theme _ being wrongfully sentenced to prison. The book comes out Sept. 1. (Balzer + Bray via AP, left and Chris Pizzello/AP)

Yusef Salaam working on novel about wrongful imprisonment

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press