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'Central Park Five' member wins N.Y. council race

Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated 'Central Park Five,' has won the Democratic primary for a seat on the New York City Council representing Central Harlem. ....

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Member of 'Central Park Five' is running for NY City Council

Yusef Salaam, a member of the 'Central Park Five' who were wrongly accused of a horrific rape in 1989, is running for New York City Council. ....

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Nicole Chung on her new grief memoir, 'A Living Remedy'

Nicole Chung was writing a memoir about losing her father; then her mother died. She discusses COVID, U.S. health care and her revised memoir, 'A Living Remedy' ....

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LA's Toni Ann Johnson: stories in 'Light Skin Gone to Waste'

Toni Ann Johnson explains how she mined her difficult childhood for the taut, wrenching short story collection 'Light Skin Gone to Waste.' ....

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How 9/11 and the pandemic inspired Mohsin Hamid's new novel

Mohsin Hamid on the inspiration and the global rise in tribalism behind "The Last White Man," in which a man awakes to find he's turned. Black. ....

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