For generations, New York City has been a beacon of Black ambition, culture and community. But increasingly, the city Black New Yorkers helped build has become one they can no longer afford to call home, and they’re looking to Mayor Zorhan Mamdani to do something about it.
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In an exclusive conversation with journalist Charles M. Blow for The Root, Mamdani broke down exactly why affordability is not just an economic issue but a question of racial equity and whether Black history in New York can continue to be written by the communities that created it…