Donald Payne was a city councilman representing the South Ward in Newark, N.J., when I met him as a junior at St. Benedict’s Prep School around 1984. I was a member of Youth in Government, a leadership development group he ran that linked young people to the state legislature and U.N. programs. We met weekly or so in his office in Newark City Hall, that gold-domed behemoth on Broad Street that screamed power to a 16-year-old news-and-politics nerd. Payne died today of colon cancer. He was 77.
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