After his wrongful conviction as one of the Central Park Five was overturned, Mr. Salaam found it hard to rebuild his life. Now he stands to take office next year. By Ginia Bellafante Ginia ...

Salaam’s endorsement of Justin Brannan, a current City Council member, follows that of Keith Wright, the leader of the ...

Yusef Salaam, the exonerated “Central Park Five” defendant, touts himself as an activist and family man — but now he’s likely adding New York City councilman to the list after declaring ...

Yusef Salaam, one of five teenagers convicted in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, won a competitive Democratic primary for a Harlem City Council seat. NEW YORK — In an era of embellished and ...

Yusef Salaam (2019) and Donald Trump (1989). (Photo illustration: Kelli R. Grant/Yahoo News; photos: Vince Bucci/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images, AP, Getty Images) ...

Prominent Councilman Yusef Salaam — one of the exonerated Central Park Five — called to change public safety laws in the aftermath of a shocking Harlem shooting Monday that left a 7-year-old ...

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 ...

Yusef Komunyakaa has said that the gift of the poet is to see behind things. In seventeen acclaimed collections he has done just that, leading us through the richly peopled landscapes of many worlds ...

When Father Yusef Mugler isn’t influencing hair trends as Rihanna’s hairstylist, he is scoring 10s across the board as the overall father of the Iconic House Of Miyake-Mugler. As the ...

Yusef Shakur shares his transformative journey from gang member to community builder. A founding member of Detroit’s “Zone 8” gang, Yusef Shakur found himself behind bars for nine years ...

The veteran hairstylist opens up to PEOPLE about bringing Ballroom to the mainstream with his show 'House on Fire' Seku When Yusef Williams met Rihanna he was already a rising star — just not in ...

Countless lives were changed on October 7th, 2023, and Yusef Mahmoud’s was no different. Even before the war, the Palestinian taxi driver couldn’t stand being a passive observer of unemployment and ...