BNV BLACK PEARLS: NYC Councilman Yusef Salaam comes full circle from the Central Park Five

Yusef Salaam spent seven years in prison before being exonerated after a wrongful conviction for the 1989 attack of a jogger in New York’s Central Park. Now, he’s a member of the New York City Council.

Allison J. Davis has more on the remarkable story of a man we are recognizing as one of NABJ Black News & Views‘ Black Pearls:

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