40 years ago, mayoral race riveted city | Dorchester Reporter

It was 1983, and the nation was just starting to climb back from double-digit unemployment. More than 2,000 people would die from a newly discovered disease called AIDS. Time Magazine’s Man of the Year was “The Computer,” and Michael Jackson would update the shuffle into the fractured poise of the “moonwalk.” On the streets of Roxbury and Dorchester, a section of the Caribbean

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