Black mayors across the United States are leading historic reductions in crime, using data, prevention programs, and community partnerships to make cities safer, according to analysis from The ...

Robert M. Walker, the first Black mayor elected in the City of Vicksburg, has died. The City of Vicksburg made the ...

Hillsborough’s first Black mayor, who crossed the color line to draw support from white residents while pressing for civil rights and his community’s future, died Thursday at the age of 95.

DeRidder Mayor Michael D. Harris is speaking out after discovering that his mother’s headstone was vandalized.

My mother said do what makes you happy, and that’s why we’re here,” Craven said. “I know she’s looking down and smiling on us ...

And now, he has an even closer connection to the region's Black history. " (Eric) is my much younger brother by a year and 16 days," the mayor-elect told KETV Newswatch 7.

That's a message that has continued to shape mayoral primaries upstate. In Rochester, which elected its first Black mayor in 1993. And in Buffalo, which followed suit more than a decade later in 2005.

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Tulsa's new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed ...

The DOJ is investigating Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson after he highlighted the number of Black officials in his administration at a Chicago church Sunday. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is ...

The Minneapolis mayor during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests has lost the backing of the Democratic party to a ...