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New York City's first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93

by Deepti Hajela
| November 24, 2020 10:27 AM

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.

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