New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio announced an "unprecedented" racial justice commission to rethink the city's laws, including its charter, to address "the foundational sin of racism in this country."
"We need to do something transformational at this point in our history, something unprecedented, and that’s why today I’m naming a racial justice commission. This is unlike any approach you’ve ever seen in the history of New York City or, honestly, in any major city in America, any state in America. We’ve never had a model for actually addressing structural racism… formally apologizing for it," de Blasio said at a press conference Tuesday.
