Dinkins was known for — and dogged by — his response to the 1991 riots in the Black and Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights (JTA) — David Dinkins, the first Black mayor of New ...

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 Press ...

David Dinkins, who later became New York City’s first Black mayor. But then Lowell Lynn, who was an assistant professor of speech communication at CWRU, connected Dinkins to an NBC fellowship that ...

David Dinkins and wife Joyce celebrate victory in the 1989 ... the barber’s son rose to become Manhattan Borough president and the city’s first and only Black mayor. Dinkins defeated three-term Mayor ...

and while under investigation in recent months has repeatedly compared himself to the late David Dinkins, New York City's ...

Adams told a crowd at a town hall in Brooklyn last week that he is under attack just like New York City’s first black mayor, David Dinkins, as he touted his administration’s diversity.

On Monday night, former New York City mayor and staunch tennis supporter David Dinkins died ... something on every point.” Dinkins, who didn’t take his first lesson until he was nearly ...

First, it’s the referee in the ring, veteran official Harvey Dock, who will control the action itself. Second, and less visible, is David Dinkins, Jr. — yes, the late Mayor’s son — who ...

Another Black city resident compared Adams to the city’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins - alleging the whole federal ...

when David Dinkins, the city’s first and only black mayor was defeated for reelection by Rudy Giuliani and a wave of white resentment. As models, neither 1977 nor 1993 suggest much success for ...

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo would clobber Mayor Eric Adams even among black voters if the pair ran against each other in the ...