{"id":2802,"date":"2025-03-01T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2025-03-01T12:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T17:31:30","slug":"statement-from-speaker-adams-on-the-passing-of-dr-hazel-dukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/03\/01\/2802\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Speaker Adams on the Passing of Dr. Hazel Dukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>On Saturday, Dr. Hazel Dukes, President of the NAACP New York State Conference, passed away. <strong>Speaker Adrienne Adams<\/strong> issued the following statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDr. Hazel Dukes committed her entire life to advancing civil rights, racial justice, and economic empowerment of our people. She was a lifelong champion for justice and equity, and never stopped fighting for a brighter future for our country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs she called me \u2018daughter,\u2019 I\u2019m so proud to have known her as my \u2018Mama Dukes, mentor, and friend.\u2019 Her legacy will live on forever, and we will always remember her extraordinary contributions and impact for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMay she Rest in Power.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>On Saturday, Dr. Hazel Dukes, President of the NAACP New York State Conference, passed away. <strong>Speaker Adrienne Adams<\/strong> issued the following statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Hazel Dukes committed her entire life to advancing civil rights, racial justice, and economic empowerment of our people. She was a lifelong champion for justice and equity, and never stopped fighting for a brighter future for our country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/03\/01\/2802\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}