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New York Times nonfiction best-seller list in early November, Andrew Cuomo’s American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic quickly fell back to earth. Word must have spread that the governor’s self-aggrandizing account of New York’s pandemic management was far less “riveting” than promised by the publisher’s blurb. By year’s end—after Cuomo had again banned indoor dining in New York City, sparred with Mayor Bill de Blasio yet again, and launched a shambolic vaccine rollout—the governor’s book was hovering around a (still-respectable) rank of 14,000 out of...

PapaBear3625 Obama's Connections In late 1988 Obama entered Harvard Law, upon the recommendation of Percy Sutton, a powerful New York politician. Why did Sutton pull strings for Obama? In an interview from "Inside City Hall, (youtube clip Obama and Khalid Mansour) Percy Sutton says he was introduced to Obama by Khalid Al-Mansour of Texas, "principle advisor to one of the world's richest men". Mansour talked to Sutton about Obama and asked Sutton to write a recommendation to Harvard, using Sutton's contacts. Percy Sutton wrote the letter to Harvard calling Obama a "genius". Now who is this K...

IN MEMORIAM: David Dinkins, New York’s First and Only Black Mayor, Dies at 93 By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Correspondent Published December 10, 2020 On the night of November 23 rd, David Dinkins succumbed to natural causes at his home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. (Courtesy Photo) David Dinkins was the stuff of political legend in New York’s Harlem. From 1990 to 1993, Dinkins served as the 106th Mayor of the largest city in America — New York. Dinkins was a historic figure as the first African American to hold the office. He often referred to the city as “a gorgeous mos...

it has to be anchored in these trends, these ideological trends that are developing within the black community and the history that the rise of his campaign came out of. >> tell me a little bit before we get to some of the details in the book that just spill out nicely there, we'll touch on most of those, tell me a little bit about what it was like to write the book, to do the research for it. you make note that political scientist, stuck in the numbers and our stats, in the present context. what was it like you -- like for you to look back and historical context? >> that's an excell...

decade i think i went to have my say, so in this book, what it's really about is providing a historical context for the rise of barack obama and looking at the various campaign strategies that racially neutral lack politics and black politicians have been using and talks about the consequences of those strategies for present-day black politics. >> host: okay so you would say it's more than about obama though, the central theme, it's about a lot more? >> guest: it's way a lot more. i think history is very important to sort of figuring out what's going on at the moment and so not only ...