Carl Heastie

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Carl Edward Heastie (; born September 25, 1967) is an American politician from New York, who has served as Speaker of the New York State Assembly since 2015. Heastie has served in the New York State Assembly since January 2001. Heastie is the first African-American to serve as speaker of the Assembly. One of his first New York City appearances after becoming speaker was at Al Sharpton's rally in Harlem, where he told the crowd, "This is a tremendous opportunity for our community, for the first time, to have one of us sit at the table," and added "All of you are going to be sitting at that table with me for the first time".

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