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 ...

A stretch of a street in Omaha has been renamed after the city’s first elected Black mayor, John Ewing Jr. Ewing started his ...

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

Ewing, who will be sworn in as mayor on June 9, will join a growing list of Black mayors in cities across the United States, including in New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago ...

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.

More Black women have been elected to state legislatures over the last decade, creating a pipeline to Congress and other offices, a new report found.

The Minneapolis DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) Party has endorsed State Senator Omar Fate h to be the next mayor of ...

Hillsborough’s first Black mayor Horace Johnson Sr. died in May 2025. He’s known for building reservoir, police station, and pushing for business and slow growth.

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Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves pushed back on any idea of "ulterior motives" and said he will host a District 7 town hall on Aug. 26.

Robert Major Walker made history in 1988 when he was elected as the first Black mayor of Vicksburg, a Mississippi River town ...