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The fight over Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the National Endowment for the Arts became a preview of the politics that followed. Once outlawed as obscene, D. H. Lawrence’s novel was meant ...

Front-runners Janeese Lewis George and Kenyan McDuffie clashed on policing and housing. They were the only two of the six candidates to qualify for the debate. If the city can’t find funding for the ...