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 ...

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.

The city of Omaha is set to have its first Black mayor after Democrat John Ewing Jr. defeated incumbent Republican Jean Stothert in Tuesday’s election. In addition to being a historic moment for ...

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

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.

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Black mayor tops list of unjustly arrested in Camilla, Ga.? Move marks the latest chapter in southwest Georgia’s 157-year struggle against systemic voter suppression and judicial complicity.

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.

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.

What the mayor announced are things that Black people need in that city, but they are not what he claims they are. Reparations are supposed to make amends for wrongs that were committed.

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 ...

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