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"Black organizers had noticed gaps in the campaign’s strategy for reaching Black voters. To address them, they led canvasses in working-class Black neighborhoods...By early October, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead over Cuomo among Black voters"

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I also do feel strongly that YA and children's fiction should include some element of hope. but kids experience death, and denying them the ability to see that and work through it in fiction is to lie to them. it's to paint a picture of a world that doesn't exist, where kids don't lose friends