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NYC’s First Black Mayor, David Dinkins, Has Died

NEW YORK — David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first African American mayor, but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his mishandling of a riot in Brooklyn, has died. He was 93.

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 2, 1990, file photo, David Dinkins delivers his first speech a