Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.

Democratic socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim immigrant, identified as both Asian and African American on his Columbia University application, a report claims. The 33-year-old checked both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his application to the Ivy League university — which was ultimately rejected — when he was a high school senior in 2009,

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani listed himself as Black on a Columbia application but later said he wasn’t, according to reporting from the New York Times.