EditorialCampaign signs for Harlem City Council candidate Yusef Salaam during a candidate forum in New York, on June 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialYusef Salaam, who won the Democratic nomination for City Council to represent Upper Manhattan, in New York on June 28, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialHarlem City Council candidate Yusef Salaam speaks to members of the media during a New York Primary watch party at Harlem Tavern in New York, on June 27, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialYusef Salaam, one of three candidates in the Democratic primary for a City Council seat in the historically Black neighborhood of Harlem, during a candidates forum in New York, June 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialPili Abdallah, left, and and her daughter Asia Shomari at their home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, April 2023. (Esther Ruth Mbabazi/The New York Times)
EditorialPili Abdallah, left, and and her daughter Asia Shomari at their home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, April 2023. (Esther Ruth Mbabazi/The New York Times)
EditorialYusef Salaam, one of the wrongfully convicted Central Park Five, who is running for a New York City Council seat in Harlem, in New York, April 13, 2023. (Kadar Small/The New York Times)
EditorialFive of the six defendants in the Central Park Jogger case during a court appearance in New York, Feb. 23, 1990. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialEdith Bartley, left, and Clara Aliganga both lost relatives in the 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (James Estrin/The New York Times)