David Dinkins, first Black mayor of New York City, dead at age 93
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Dinkins, a former Marine and graduate of Howard University and Brooklyn Law School, served as a member of the state Assembly and New York City Board of Elections president before taking office as president of the city’s Manhattan borough from 1986 to 1989, according to the news agency. In 1989, Dinkins, a Democrat, defeated then-Mayor Ed Koch in the primary and Republican Rudy Giuliani in the general election to become New York’s first Black mayor from 1990 to 1993, the AP reported. In 1993, he lost his re-election bid to Giuliani, who served as mayor from 1994 to 2001.
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