CARIBBEAT  Long lasting achievements of William Thompson — a son of Caribbean immigrants who changed New York politics

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The Caribbean community lost another successful and accomplished pioneer last week when William Thompson died on Christmas Eve at age 94. The son of immigrants from St. Kitts and Nevis, Thompson was Brooklyn’s first African-American state senator and a former state Supreme Court justice in addition...

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