Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and the Democratic Party’s newly minted candidate for mayor of New York City, found himself in some hot water last week after The New York Times reported that he claimed to be both Asian and “Black or African American” on his college application to Columbia University.

Social media backlash erupted after The New York Times published a report about NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani's Columbia application, echoing previous conflicts at the paper.