Mamdani speaks at Rikers Island high school graduation

It’s graduation season in the city, including on Rikers Island, where 57 students graduated from East River Academy Tuesday. Among their commencement speakers: Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

“Many of you arrived on Rikers in a cloud of uncertainty and despair,” he said. “The future felt very grim, indeed. And yet you did not surrender to that alienation. You were not overcome by the adversity that lay before you. Instead, you chose to continue moving forward. You chose to pursue your education, to stick with it, even on your lowest days.”

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