By Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray

When we first started dating, we faced many challenges as an interracial couple. Resistance came from friends and even family, but there was one experience more direct and threatening than all the rest. It was 1991 and Jungle Fever, a Spike Lee film...

New York City's election laws are notoriously outdated and arcane, and many of them simply do not make sense. Candidates throughout New York City face trying battles to get on and stay on the ballot. Many are kicked off over extremely minor errors, from typos to the misspelling of a...

Over a six-week period this summer, our volunteers and supporters took to the streets to talk to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers about the key issues facing our City. In the end, they collected signatures from more than 125,000 New Yorkers to put my name on the ballot for...

Over the last six years, six states have legalized gay marriage - a real sign of progress. For our nation to become a place where all people are free to marry whomever they chose, this battle must now be fought and won on the local level, right here in New...

The New York City office of Public Advocate is a desperately needed agent of oversight and accountability in New York City. Yet Mayor Michael Bloomberg has cut the budget for this office by 40% for fiscal year 2010, while he reduced the budget for his own office by just 1%....