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Audio: The Day My Parents, and 4000 Other Strangers, Married Across Racial Lines

My mom and dad are among many thousands of couples who’ve wed in the 50 years since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Loving v. Virginia. But they’re different from most:…

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CityViews: What’s Wrong With the Mayor’s School Diversity Plan

Whenever the mayor decides to take the promised second step in this journey, let it be a giant step, worthy of the greatest city in the world.

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CityViews: To Fund Arts Equally, City Must Spend Rather Than Cut

‘We do not want to see small and large organizations fighting each other over crumbs, creating more divisiveness in our already divided society.’

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CityViews: Firms Linked to Foreign Bribery Have Given Advice on Transit Crisis

Hoping to explain the rash of subway delays, the media often rely on a study funded by two corporations that later took contracts with the MTA to work on the…

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CityViews: ‘We are making good on the promise of a strong and sustainable neighborhood’

The city’s planning and housing commissioners review progress in East New York one year after the major rezoning there.

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CityViews: Kids With Special Needs Would Lose if City Wins Charter-School Closure

A mom who is suing the DOE writes about the role a threatened charter school has played in the lives of her two sons with learning disabilities.

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CityViews: Crackdown Against AirBnB Hurts Families of Color

‘The state and city of New York have instituted policies that threaten to stifle innovation and undermine efforts to grow our economy from the bottom up and from the middle…

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City-Views: Blocking Immigrants from Essential Services Hurts All New Yorkers

The Trump Administration is taking steps to deprive immigrants of essential services, including health care, and that would be bad for all New Yorkers, regardless of status.

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CityViews: City Must Address the Reality of Tenant Displacement

‘The Jerome Avenue rezoning would give landlords increased financial incentive to utilize the displacement tactics already at their disposal.’

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CityViews: Funding More Parks Workers is Key to Broader Fight for Workplace Dignity

The story of parks workers is similar to the story of workers in most sectors of our economy. So the debate over whether to make a batch of parks…

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