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For American racial and ethnic groups on the way up, gaining control of city hall is confirmation of emerging political clout. So it was a triumphal moment last week when Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins defeated three-term incumbent Edward I. Koch to win the Democratic Party mayoral primary in...
If Dinkins succeeds, New York would join the growing ranks of cities with black mayors. African Americans occupy just 1.5% of elective offices at the federal, state and local level, though they account for 11% of the voting-age population. But 22 years after the ground-breaking 1967 elections of...
Even when they presided over healthy local economies, some black mayors became preoccupied by the needs of the middle class, black and white, at the expense of poorer constituents. During Maynard Jackson's two terms as mayor, from 1974 to 1982, Atlanta became a symbol of New South prosperity. In...
Mayors who presided over less fortunate cities had even less to offer their poor constituents, and have suffered accordingly. In 1986, Gary's Hatcher and Newark's Ken Gibson became the first black mayors to fall to challenges from a new generation of black aspirants less interested in national podiums...
Young's toe will be aimed at Tom Barrow, 40, a black businessman the mayor defeated four years ago by painting him as a pawn of white suburbanites. But Barrow has been blasting at Young's predilection for sparkling downtown development projects over measures to help the city's devastated...