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New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani arrives for the March on Wall Street, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is working to woo Black voters away from Adams and Cuomo

August 29, 2025

New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is out courting Black voters, trying to do better with them in the general election than he did in the primary. Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in June, but polls show he has plenty of room to improve his performance in the city’s predominantly Black neighborhoods. Mamdani and his supporters say he’s working to grow trust with Black New Yorkers. He’s running against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams in the general election. Both Cuomo and Adams have years of experience campaigning and building relationships in the city’s Black neighborhoods and churches.

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FILE - Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin is seen on Dec. 14, 1970, in New York. (AP Photo/File)

A Bayard Rustin archive aims to preserve his legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist

July 8, 2025

Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington. The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice says the archive will be available online in the fall. The collection of rare TV footage, documents, and firsthand accounts will illustrate Rustin’s life and influence. He was a mentor to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a leading organizer of the March on Washington. The Associated Press recently discovered and digitized video showing Rustin addressing rallies in New York.

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This photo provided by the New York Public Library shows the exterior of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York on May 7, 2025. (Jonathan Blanc/New York Public Library via AP)

The home of one of the largest catalogs of Black history turns 100 in New York

June 13, 2025

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country. The center hopes to spread awareness of that fact Saturday as it celebrates its centennial at two marquee annual events. The Black Comic Book Festival and the Schomburg Literary Festival on Saturday will feature readings, discussions, workshops, cosplay and a vendor marketplace. The center’s leaders have curated over 100 objects for an exhibition that tells the story of the center’s people and the place that shaped it. Celebration of the center’s centennial is expected to continue for a full year.

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