Salaam is one of three candidates in a competitive June 27 Democratic primary almost certain to decide who will represent a Harlem district.
NEW YORK (AP) — Outside a Harlem subway station, Yusef Salaam, a candidate for New York City Council, hurriedly greeted voters streaming out along Malcolm X Boulevard. For some, no introductions were necessary. They knew his face, his name and his life story.
But to the unfamiliar, Salaam needed only to introduce himself as one of the Central Park Five — one of the Black or brown teenagers, ages 14 to 16, today!
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