Mayor, pols gather in Harlem for MLK forum
BY MORGAN C.
MULLINGS
The National Action Network
hosted New York
state’s most prominent
elected offi cials in a lively
celebration of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.’s life on Monday,
highlighting a joint effort
to get voting rights passed in
Washington, D.C.
Mayor Eric Adams, Governor
Kathy Hochul and Lieutenant
Governor Brian Benjamin
were among those who highlighted
on MLK Day the grief
and fear that New Yorkers are
experiencing, and the conversations
King started during the
Civil Rights Movement that
city elected offi cials are trying
to fi nish.
“The bills I was so proud to
sign into law declared that racism
is a public health crisis today,
because the war is not over,
the battle is not over, the march
must go on toward justice,” Hochul
said. She also commented
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Mayor Eric Adams speaks, with Rev. Al Sharpton looking on.
on the bills moving forward
across the country that make it
more diffi cult for certain groups
to vote. “Not in our state, thank
God,” she said. “They’re trying
to stop Black and brown people
from exercising the right that
Dr. King fought for as well and
we won’t let that happen.”
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Lt. Gov. Benjamin said
that he and Hochul have supported
a bill dedicated to the
late Rep. John Lewis, that creates
a process for abridging or
changing the right to vote for
protected classes.
Public Advocate Jumaane
Williams and Comptroller Brad
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Lander riled up the crowd during
their speeches, and while
those attending were ready to
celebrate with them, there was
also pointed anger surrounding
the eviction moratorium and
housing crisis.
Governor Hochul has seen
signifi cant scrutiny for allowing
the eviction moratorium to end
on Saturday, King’s birthday,
during severely cold weather
and the most COVID-19 cases
the city has ever seen.
Senators Chuck Schumer
and Kristen Gillibrand attended
to defend King’s dream in the
form of the two voting rights
bills headed to the Senate. One
is specially dedicated to the late
Rep.Lewis, who fought for voting
rights alongside the civil
rights leader. They claim that
fi libuster rules, which were developed
in the Jim Crow era of
Congress, have signifi cantly
slowed the process.
“This is a tough fi ght … Repeatedly
for months now we
tried to bring our Republican
colleagues to the table in good
faith. No one has come over to
our side,” Schumer said.
Gillibrand added, “We have
legislators across this country
that are working overtime to
deny black and brown people
the right to vote, making it
harder to vote in this country.
That has to stop and that’s why
we have to end the fi libuster and
the fi libuster now.”
Newcomers to City Hall and
borough halls across the city also
gave their remarks, like Bronx
Borough President Vanessa
Gibson, and freshman council
members Carmen De La Rosa
(D-Washington Heights) and
Eric Bottcher (D-Chelsea). The
Council’s fi rst Black majority
whip, Selvena Brooks-Powers
(D-Southeast Queens), commented
on the long fi ght ahead
for racial equality.
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