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Maya Wiley Announces Run for NYC Mayor, Shades Bill de Blasio's Tragic Run for the White House: 'You Will Never Have to Wonder Whether I'm in Iowa'

Maya Wiley, civil rights activist and attorney, has made her candidacy official, announcing it Thursday with a play on a frozen video call that she’s officially running for mayor of New York City. Wiley came out swinging against her former boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio (Wiley worked as de Blasio’s counsel for two years), telling…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

October 9, 2020
Politics

Sorry to This Man: Alleged NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Bows Out of Presidential Race

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio officially ended his presidential campaign today, writing in an NBC News op-ed, “I have contributed all I can to this Democratic primary.” “This campaign has been a profound experience for me,” de Blasio wrote. “I saw America in full—not as it appears on Twitter and cable news, where…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

September 20, 2019
Gentrification & Housing, Politics

Knocking Down the PJs? NYC Considers Building Mixed-Income Residence on Site of Public Housing

Ask any native New Yorkers, especially black and brown New Yorkers, and “word on the street” has long been the notion that with gentrification would come the demolition of public housing, long the place many poorer black and brown New Yorkers have called home. Now comes word that the idea is no longer just a…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

April 22, 2019