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Whither the Black Exodus?

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In early January of this year, an impressive cross-section of the City’s political leadership assembled at the Bridge Street AME Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant for the funeral of John Flateau, a longtime political activist and scholar who was one of the architects of New York’s current Black political renaissance. A tenured political scientist who spent stints as chief of staff to Mayor David Dinkins and executive director of the state’s Black and Puerto Rican legislative caucus, Flateau had spent decades quietly mastering the obscure but critical field of redistricting. A veteran of countless battles in courtrooms and backroom strategy sessions, he was the lead plaintiff in Flateau v. Anderson, one of a trio of federal cases in the early 1980s that abolished New York’s at-large City Council districts, redrew state legislative lines and made portions of the City’s voting rules subject to federal oversight under the Voting Rights Act. New York Mayor Eric Adams came to the funeral to pay h

Black political power is inextricably tied to the size of the Black population in New York. In early January of this year, an impressive cross-section of the City's political leadership assembled at the Bridge Street AME Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant for the funeral of John Flateau, a longtime political activist and scholar who was one of the architects of New York's current Black political renaissance. A tenured political scientist who spent stints as chief of staff to Mayor David Dinkins and executive director of the state's Black and Puerto Rican legislative caucus, Flateau had spent decades

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