Eric Adams elected as New York City’s second Black mayor, CNN projects
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 3, 2021
Adams, a retired New York Police Department captain who embraced a public safety message, will be the second Black mayor in the city's history, after the late David Dinkins.
"I wanted people to know my story, being a dishwasher, having a learning disability, being arrested as a child, going to school at night, working in a mail room. That was the story I wanted to send New Yorkers, and they felt me. And because of that, I'm now going to be the mayor of one of the greatest cities on the globe," the mayor-elect . . .
