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Jamaal Bowman, founder and first principal of the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action (CASA) a public school located in the north-eastern neighborhood, Baychester in the Bronx, speaks to a crowd of 90-110 people during a rally organized by The Young Turks’ founder Cenk Uygur, with the goal to help organize local progressive activists with the tools and literature to help educate their communities in New York City and greater New York area, at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, September 9, 2019. Bowman has taken a page out of the Bronx Progressive Democrats playbook after announcing his official run for office on June 18th of 2019, where he will be running his insurgent campaign to unseat the 30 year veteran democrat Eliot Engel in the NY-16 Democratic Congressional District, a district that occupies a portion of the Bronx and Westchester County.