Malik Yusef overcame a mountain of challenges that for many might seem insurmountable — disabilities, poverty, violence, gangs — propelled by his love of poetry. That passion set the Chicago spoken ...

Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongfully accused Central Park Five who served nearly seven years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit, talked with Esquire about his position as a Harlem city council ...

New York City Councilman Yusef Salaam has been facing heat for a traffic stop that revealed he was driving a car with out-of-state plates — highlighting an issue that’s reached crisis levels across ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago's own Malik Yusef was nominated for a Grammy Award this year for his own spoken word poetry album. Yusef didn't win this time. It also was not Yusef's first time at the ...

Yusef Salaam, the author and activist who was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated as a member of the “Central Park Five,” has won a seat on the New York City Council, The Associated Press projects.

Will New York let its long-professed collective guilt over the Central Park jogger case dictate public safety? We’ll see if the City Council lets a perfectly proper police stop of onetime Central Park ...

Donald Trump once called for his execution − now Yusef Salaam will be a member of the New York City Council. Salaam, one of the "Central Park Five" who was exonerated for a 1989 attack on a jogger, ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” earned a new title on ...