Charlotte's four Black mayors — some of the city's most prominent living history makers — united for a rare discussion this ...

Breaking barriers and making history. Ella Jones became the first Black person elected to the Ferguson City Council in April ...

Hundreds of people attended Saturday’s funeral at a Richmond-area church for Henry L. Marsh III, who died Jan. 23 at age 91, ...

A councilwoman slammed South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau for chastising the "all-Black council" for criticizing his lavish ...

Mayor Cavalier Johnson presented awards for outstanding citizen, education advocate, minority business champion and ...

Blessing Yemi Mobolade was inaugurated as the 42nd Mayor of Colorado Springs on June 6, 2023, the beginning of his first four ...

We kick off our Black History Month series by highlighting and honoring Alice Scott, the first woman and African American to hold the office of mayor in the City of Canton.

Boston kicked off Black History Month celebrations on Monday with prayer, song, powerful speeches, and a call to action.

The City of ... the mayor decided to leave. “I will say that I am very dismayed by the actions of this council,” he said. “This is not the meeting that a team of us worked on planning ...

Current and former Virginia elected leaders speaking at this weekend's service for the first Black ... us it is one thing to have power, and it is another to use it,” Dwight Jones, Richmond's ...

In 1977, the city council made him the city’s first Black mayor. At the time ... elementary school he attended for him. “He taught us it is one thing to have power, and it is another to ...