- Dinkins was mayor from 1990 to 1994 and remains the city's only Black mayor.
- Former Mayor David Dinkins, the first Black man ever to serve the highest executive office in New York City, died on Monday night at the age of 93, according.
- The David Dinkins legacy has always been complex, ripe for revision and misunderstanding.
- Dinkins continued to have good luck in 1992, as the city prepared for the lucrative Democratic National Convention—a feather in the mayor’s political cap.
- Mr. Dinkins helped inspire a generation of Black leaders to run for office, including Laurie Cumbo, the majority leader of the New York City Council.
- David Dinkins, who served as New York City's first and only Black mayor during the 1990s, has died at 93, according to multiple reports.
- Dinkins was famously mentioned in a verse by the late Phife Dawg in the 1990 A Tribe Called Quest classic "Can I Kick It."
- David Dinkins, pictured here in 1986, was elected New York City's first black mayor in 1989.
- "The example Mayor David Dinkins set for all of us shines brighter than the most powerful lighthouse imaginable.
- David Dinkins’s political career began when he joined the Carver Club headed by a charismatic politician, J. Raymond Jones, who was known as the Harlem...