Shaundel Washington-Spivey kicked off the month by making history as the first Black person and first openly queer person ...

A high-ranking Oakland city official has been fired after a note she wrote last year that appeared to refer to black people ...

The African American Mayors Association announced Friday Savannah Mayor Van Johnson has been appointed as President of the ...

Progressive icon and former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee is the new mayor of troubled Oakland, California, a city she represented for more than two decades in Congress ...

While the debate was missing one candidate, it provided some entertaining moments, including Pureval asking Frank where he ...

Would she break the curse or fall victim to it? We will find out soon enough. How is it that Black mayors in St. Louis don’t get a second chance to course-correct while mediocre white mayors get ...

That’s of grave concern for Mayor Van Johnson ... It was allowing us to help alleviate flooding in historically Black communities in Savannah, and that money was taken back by the Trump ...

Jones hoped to make history as the first Black mayor of St. Louis to serve more than one term, but fell short. Tishaura Jones had hoped to make history as the first Black mayor of St. Louis to ...

1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first Black mayor. Washington, a U.S. representative who also served in the ...

“But for too many Black New Yorkers, that is no longer a reality. The city is different, and the next mayor of this city has to have an agenda that will help Black New Yorkers.” Myrie’s ...