The mayor’s skill in wielding race and biography has energized Black activists with shared experiences to push alternate solutions to New York City’s problems.
Tag: Race and Ethnicity
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There’s a Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things
“Racism has undermined efforts to deliver a social safety net in the U.S. for a very long time,” one scholar says.
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Poll Shows Tight Race for Control of Congress as Class Divide Widens
Nonwhite and working-class Democrats worry more about the economy, while white college graduates focus more on cultural issues like abortion rights and guns.
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A Self-Taught Artist Takes His Roadside Acropolis North
Outside the art establishment for decades, Charles Smith has sculpted his Black heroes in Aurora, Ill., and now in Hammond, La. At 81, he’s getting his first show in New York.