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A day after New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones publicly challenged Mayor Zohran Mamdani to confront school segregation, the mayor offered his first response to her account of the harm her daughter experienced in segregated schools.
“It was a devastating piece,” Mamdani said Tuesday on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show in response to Hannah-Jones’ essay. “And it is an articulation, in many ways, of the systemic nature of the way that the public school system in our city failed her child.”…