EditorialDesmond Tutu speaks on the steps of New York’s City Hall in 1986, weeks before a planned anti-apartheid rally, with Cleveland Robinson, a leader of the protest, and Bella Abzug, the former congresswoman. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialNew York City mayoral candidates, including, from left, Bella Abzug, Herman Badillo, Mayor Abraham Beame, Mario Cuomo, center, Ed Koch, second from right, and Percy Sutton, right, after a debate in New York on Sept. 4, 1977, when fiscal tensions and voter turnout were high. (Fred Conrad/The New York Times)