Ms. Adams, the City Council speaker, won endorsements from Letitia James, the state attorney general, and from three major ...

OAKLAND, CA - Barbara Lee has been announced as the next Mayor of Oakland, making Lee the city’s first-ever Black female ...

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

Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in over a millennium and build on Francis's legacy of ...

Bobbie J. Mitchell, the first Black mayor of Lewisville, Texas, and her husband were found with stab wounds early Monday ...

Shaundel Washington-Spivey kicked off the month by making history as the first Black person and first openly queer person elected mayor of La Crosse, Wisconisn. Washington-Spivey won his mayoral ...

Mayor Eric Adams railed against the media and said he’s treated differently as the city’s second Black mayor at the ... of his administration. “First African America woman to be a first ...

Voters in La Crosse, Wisconsin, made history on Tuesday when they elected the city’s first Black and openly gay mayor. Shaundel Washington-Spivey came out victorious in the local race against ...

Jones lost her reelection bid to Alderwoman Cara Spencer, with Spencer capturing 64% of the vote to Jones' 36 percent, and ...

Progressives have been warned to "consolidate or die." Both candidates are competing to be the Working Families Party's top ...