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Talking with each other. Can we all get along . [ applause ] in about 20 minutes from now David Dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york citys 106th mayor and the citys first africanamerican mayor. I intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. David dinkins being inaugurated on new years day in 1990 is sort of an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. People are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. A grandson of slaves was ...

Mariah Stovall on her debut novel, a chocolate lover’s dream, Anna Deavere Smith at NGA, Bodega at Comet, and Belle & Sebastian.

The Grand Alliance between Black and Jewish leaders, known largely for shared work on Civil Rights in the 1960s, has a complicated legacy--and an uncertain future between these communities.

Certain scholars doubted an ex-slave could have written ‘The Bondwoman’s Narrative,’ a novel that channeled Dickens's ‘Bleak House’ and evinced…

Beloved political drama The West Wing was inspired by the Michael Douglas-Annette Bening rom-com The American President. Here's how it came to be.