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Nov 24, 2020 · David Norman Dinkins, the genteel first and, to date, only Black mayor of New York City who dedicated much of his public life trying to improve race relations in the nation’s largest city, has died...
David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 – November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993. Dinkins was among the more than 20,000 Montford Point Marines, the first African-American U.S. Marines, from 1945 to 1946.
Nov 24, 2020 · A Black teenager had been accosted by whites and shot dead in Brooklyn. The city, plagued by drugs and homelessness, lurched from crisis to crisis. The mayoral campaign itself seemed on the...
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Nov 24, 2020 · NEW YORK (AP) — David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first African American mayor, but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his...
Nov 23, 2020 · David Dinkins, New York City’s first and only Black mayor, has died at 93. Two senior NYPD officials confirmed to NBC New York that Dinkins' health aide found him unresponsive in his Lenox Hill...
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Nov 24, 2020 · David Dinkins, who broke barriers when he was elected New York City's first Black mayor, died Monday at the age of 93, police said.
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Nov 24, 2020 · The first and only black mayor of New York City, David Dinkins, has died at the age of 93. Officers were called to his home on Monday evening, New York police were quoted by the Associated...
