The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week, ran for president twice, leading more Black voters to register. The year after ...

1996. Always toddlin’ Chicago. My plane seatmate was my longtime forever friend NYC’s mayor David Dinkins. We were going together to the Democratic National Convention. I’d packed one bag. Dave, ...

Stuck between the bombastic personalities of Edward Koch and Rudy Giuliani, David Dinkins’ one term as Mayor of New York City sometimes gets lost. But the 1989 election of Dinkins, who died five years ...

Zohran Mamdani’s opponents have portrayed his Democratic Socialists of America affiliation as unusual, but he is not the first New York politician — or would-be mayor — with ties to the group. By Emma ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Few American leaders have faced the battery of urban ills that confronted David Dinkins when he became New York City’s first Black mayor in 1990. AIDS. Crack cocaine. A soaring murder ...