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Last operating US prison ship, a grim vestige of mass incarceration, set to close in NYC
Read full article: Last operating US prison ship, a grim vestige of mass incarceration, set to close in NYCA little-known New York City jail believed to be the last operating prison ship in the country is set to shutter the week.
New York City's first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93
Read full article: New York City's first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 2, 1990, file photo, David Dinkins delivers his first speech as mayor of New York, in New York. Dinkins, New York Citys first African-American mayor, died Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Frankie Ziths, File)NEW YORK – Few American leaders have faced the battery of urban ills that confronted David Dinkins when he became New York City's first Black mayor in 1990. De Blasio, who worked in Dinkins’ administration, named Manhattan’s Municipal Building after his mentor in October 2015. Newly freed Nelson Mandela made New York City his first stop in the U.S. in 1990.