Joyce Dinkins, wife of former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, dies
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Joyce Dinkins, wife of former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, dies

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NEW YORK — Joyce Dinkins, the former first lady of New York City, has died at 89. Her husband, David Dinkins, was the city’s first — and, to date, only — Black mayor. During his term as mayor from 1990 to 1993, Joyce Dinkins focused her efforts on the city’s children, and promoted programs that would improve their literacy as well as access to the arts. She was “such a strong and good woman, so dignified in everything she did,” said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who worked in the Dinkins administration.

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New York City’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93
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New York City’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93

Associated Press  

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. In his inaugural address, he spoke lovingly of New York as a “gorgeous mosaic of race and religious faith, of national origin and sexual orientation, of individuals whose families arrived yesterday and …

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