1. Charles Barron previously held the same seat from 2002 to 2013, and served in the New York Assembly from the 60th district between 2015 and 2022.
67 Facts About Charles Barron
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Charles Barron began his career working as a community activist in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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Charles Barron became chief of staff for Rev Herbert Daughtry before running for the New York city council, where he served from 2001 to 2013.
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Charles Barron attended Seward Park High School in Lower Manhattan, but left before graduating, but later earned his GED.
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In 1969, when he was 18 years old, Charles Barron was recruited to the Harlem branch of the Black Panther Party by a member named Mark Holder.
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Charles Barron distributed newspapers for the party, and developed an interest in politics.
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Charles Barron studied the Third World independence movement and the ideas of African leaders as Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekou Toure.
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Charles Barron opposed the Duvaliers in Haiti, Pinochet in Chile, Marcos in the Philippines, Pahlavi of Iran, and Somoza of Nicaragua.
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In 1979, Charles Barron joined the National Black United Front, and was the founding chairperson of its Harlem Chapter.
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In 1982, as head of the Harlem Chapter, Charles Barron was arrested with Preston Wilcox from the Institute of African Research because they, with roughly 12 to 20 other protesters, attempted to "forcibly remove" Robert Morris, a white historian, from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Shortly after the incident, Charles Barron was appointed chief of staff to the Reverend Herbert Daughtry, chairperson of the NBUF and minister at Brooklyn's House of the Lord Church.
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In 1983, Charles Barron moved to East New York, where he and his wife founded the Dynamics of Leadership Company.
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Charles Barron spoke at many organizations and schools, including Harvard and Yale, teaching principles of negotiation, team-building, emotional intelligence, and leadership.
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From 1982 to 1987, Charles Barron served as secretary general of the African Peoples Christian Organization.
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On December 21,1987, Charles Barron participated in a "day of outrage" to protest racism in the New York City Police Department and local courts.
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Sharpton, Mitchell and Charles Barron were convicted in February 1990, with Mitchell and Charles Barron being jailed for 45 days.
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In 1988, Charles Barron published two children's books: Up You Mighty People, You Can Accomplish What You Will and Look For Me in the Whirlwind, written about the life of Marcus Garvey.
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Charles Barron said his opposition to the incinerator is what catapulted him into electoral politics.
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Charles Barron was endorsed by black leaders David Dinkins and Al Sharpton, but he ended up losing to Wooten.
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Charles Barron ran again in 2001, when term limits prevented Wooten from running.
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Charles Barron defeated her son, Donald Wooten, and became City Councillor for the 42nd District.
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In 2002, Charles Barron was appointed chair of the city council's Higher Education Committee.
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Charles Barron argued that students should not be denied admission to CUNY because of their performance at the pre-college level, adding that when the CUNY ended open admissions the number of black students declined while changes in the proportions of other ethnic groups were minimal.
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In January 2006, Charles Barron was the only Council member to vote against Christine Quinn by voting for Bill de Blasio for the speakership position.
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In late 2009, Charles Barron intensified his opposition to Quinn, proposing a "Democratic Reform Movement" with City Councillor Tony Avella to shift power away from the council speaker to rank-and-file members.
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Charles Barron challenged Quinn for the speakership but was defeated by a council vote of 48 to 1.
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Charles Barron stated that the move to strip him of the committee chairmanship was racist.
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Charles Barron entered the race for mayor of New York city in 2005.
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Charles Barron raised funds and campaigned but in early February 2005, dropped out and threw his support to C Virginia Fields.
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Charles Barron chose to endorse Fields rather than attempt a long-shot campaign.
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Charles Barron said the comments brought "irreversible" damage to Ferrer's campaign and hoped Ferrer would drop out of the race and endorse Fields.
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In 2006, Charles Barron expressed his disaffection from the Democratic Party, disappointed by the large number of cross-endorsements Bloomberg received from Democrats.
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In 2006, Charles Barron ran for a House seat representing the 10th district, which includes East New York.
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Charles Barron ran against the 24-year incumbent, Democrat Edolphus Towns, and lost by 8 points.
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On June 14,2010, Charles Barron announced he had formed a new party, the New York Democratic Freedom Party, and would challenge Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo.
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Charles Barron noted that Cuomo had picked a white politician to run for the position of Lieutenant Governor and that all the other statewide Democratic Party candidates were white.
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Charles Barron criticized Cuomo's budget proposals, which called for deep cuts in health care and education spending, and his decision not to extend the state's so-called millionaire's tax, which expires at the end of 2012.
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Charles Barron announced that he would seek the 2012 Democratic nomination for the House seat due to the retirement of the long-term incumbent, Edolphus Towns.
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Charles Barron tried to deflect Duke's unwelcome praise but the news was widely circulated by Jeffries' supporters, who were amused that Charles Barron couldn't really counter Duke's endorsement because they did share some common beliefs.
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Charles Barron is one of the charter schools' strongest critics, while Jeffries endorses them.
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Charles Barron refused to congratulate Jeffries, accusing the Jeffries campaign of "a smear campaign [and] show[ing] a lack of character".
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On November 4,2013, Charles Barron announced in a Web Video, that he will run for the State Assembly seat, currently vacated by his wife, Inez, who ran for his term-limited City council seat.
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On February 3,2011, Charles Barron was among hundreds of angry parents and students who protested loudly during a hearing closing 12 schools classified as failing.
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On September 12,2002, Charles Barron hosted an event at New York City Hall honoring Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, whom Charles Barron praised as the liberator of black Africans in then-Rhodesia.
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Specifically, Charles Barron said, "In the year 2000, when he said one farm, one farmer, he was vilified", arguing that Mugabe was popular internationally only while his government "didn't take the land from the whites".
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Charles Barron added that in South Africa, whites "still own 80 to 90 percent of the land," which is why international powers support South African leaders such Nelson Mandela.
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Charles Barron stated he had seen no evidence which tied the Mugabe government to any attacks on supporters of the Zimbabwe opposition.
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Charles Barron has defended Louis Farrakhan against allegations that Farrakhan is a racist.
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Charles Barron has sided with black leaders in supporting victims of police brutality, including Amadou Diallo.
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Charles Barron has said that crime is not the fault of the black community, but rather, is a consequence of the community's economic plight.
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Charles Barron's name was floated with death threats on NYPD Rant, an internet forum, during 2007.
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Charles Barron has spoken passionately on the issue of reparations for slavery and, while on the city council, proposed creating a commission in New York City to study the effects of slavery on modern African Americans and use city funding for reparations.
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Charles Barron introduced a bill to support restitution from companies that had benefited from past slavery.
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Charles Barron believes that United States history is not accurately taught in schools, and has expressed interest in promoting African-American history throughout the New York City public school system.
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Charles Barron has drafted legislation mandating the teaching of African-American history in required school curriculum.
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Charles Barron has used his position as Councilman to propose renaming buildings and schools as well as decorating them with mementos of black history.
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Charles Barron drafted a bill that would have asked President George W Bush to cancel all debts African nations owe the US.
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Charles Barron has twice sought clemency for individuals he described as "political prisoners".
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Charles Barron asked in 2005 that Assata Shakur, a fugitive wanted by the federal government, be granted clemency for the alleged 1973 killing of a state trooper.
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In 2009, Charles Barron asked that the City of New York compensate the five men wrongly accused in the Central Park Jogger case.
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Charles Barron, appearing on the Fox network television program The O'Reilly Factor in April, 2006, stated that opposition to present-day immigration involves skin color.
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Charles Barron argued that Germans, Jews, Poles, Greeks, and Italians who immigrated to the United States during the late 19th century were welcomed because of the color of their skin.
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Charles Barron says he does not salute the flag or believe in the Pledge of Allegiance, stating that the pledge's assertion that there is equality and justice for all is a lie that is not true for African-Americans.
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Charles Barron has criticized crony capitalism, calling it a "deeply-rooted illness" within America.
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Charles Barron wrote a scathing editorial on the $700 billion bailout package in 2008, calling it the "biggest welfare check in the history of the planet".
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At the National Summit on Gentrification in 2019, Charles Barron discussed strategies on keeping his district Black to the exclusion of White people, boasting:.
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Charles Barron held a mortgage crisis forum in 2007 to address concerns from residents who were in danger of house foreclosure.