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Zohran Mamdani Proposes Taxing ‘Whiter Neighborhoods’ in NYC

New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has said he wants to “shift the tax burden” to “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if he secures election in November. A housing policy document on Mamdani’s official website includes a pledge to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes […]

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How ‘Friday’ Gave A Refreshing Sense of Humanity of Working-Class Black Neighborhoods | Opinion

Throughout the late ’80s and early ’90s, young, Black, coming-of-age films followed the blueprint pioneered by the late and great John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood. A litany of compelling dramas about being a young Black man or boy growing up fast in divested, inner-city neighborhoods were depicted in films like South Central (1992), Juice […]

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