City Council
From the Exonerated Five to the New York City Council | #citycouncil
Yusef Salaam, one of the “Central Park Five” who was exonerated of criminal charges more than 20 years ago, has been projected to win a New York City Council primary race. Salaam has declared victory, and though the primary will not be certified until next week and there’s still a general election to contend with, […]
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Arkansas
The Modern-Day Company Towns of Arkansas
This article appears in the August 2022 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. On a sweltering June Sunday earlier this summer, under the shade of a pavilion in Springdale, Arkansas’s Luther George Park, Alice Gachuzo-Colin launched her campaign for city council. The first Black woman ever to run for office in Springdale, Gachuzo-Colin […]
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