On the campaign trail and during his transition, Eric Adams has had a message for those like him: “Where you are is not who you are.”

When he’s inaugurated in one week’s time, Adams will be only the second Black mayor in the city’s history.

And Adams is elevating several other Black leaders in building an administration that’s set to put Black struggles, triumphs and excellence front and center.

Keechant Sewell is his incoming NYPD commissioner.

“As the first woman and only the third Black person to lead the NYPD in its 107-year history, I bring a different perspective,” she said at her appointment earlier this month.

David Banks is his pick for schools chancellor.

Earlier this month, he referenced his parents and a teacher who shaped his mindset: “And she taught me about the people who fought, bled, died and sacrificed for me to have the opportunity for me to have the opportunity to be all that I wanted to be and the responsibility to my community.”

On Thursday, Team Adams announced a slate of seven more appointees.

Five of them are people of color.

Three of them are Black: Jacques Jiha will continue as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Gary Jenkins will be the next commissioner of the Human Resources Administration and Dawn Pinnock is the incoming commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services.

Pinnock spoke about diversity at a City & State forum in February.

“We’ve started to establish task forces at different agencies where we’re talking about race equity, really having those courageous, yet uncomfortable conservations,” she said then.

Adams’ ascent will mark a time of Black political leadership perhaps not seen since the days of Harlem’s Gang of Four.

He said in early December of his trip to Ghana: “And my journey that I thought about through the campaign was just to get back to the continent of Africa, when we left in slavery and I returned in the mayoralty.”

Along with Adams, the city’s top tier of Black representatives include reelected Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and City Council Member Adrienne Adams, who will be council’s first Black speaker.

Eric Adams brings with him socio-economic diversity, too, a deep pride in and recognition of his working-class upbringing.

“Tonight is not just a victory over adversity, it is a vindication of faith,” he said on the night of he won election as mayor.