Leigh Hanson came under fire this week after a note in which she referred to Black people as “tokens” became public.

Interim Oakland Mayor Kevin Jenkins fired Leigh Hanson, his chief of staff, on Sunday over a note she wrote last year that ...

The endorsement of three Black women who have successfully run for citywide offices comes a little more than a month after ...

Women of color bear the brunt of these attacks. A Black mayor of the city of St. Louis has never won a second term, and the ...

Voters in La Crosse, Wisconsin, made history on election night Tuesday when they elected its first Black and openly gay mayor ...

In a historic win, Shaundel Washington-Spivey defeated City Council President Chris Kahlow in La Crosse's mayoral race this ...

ROSCK ISLAND, Illinois (KWQC) - In Tuesday’s election, Ashley Harris became just the second Black person elected mayor of ...

Goins, the city's first Black mayor, defeats former Mayor Brant Walker and Raymond Strebel in Tuesday's election.

Former Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham will return to City Hall after he apparently defeated incumbent Mayor Ann Taylor in ...

Would she break the curse or fall victim to it? We will find out soon enough. How is it that Black mayors in St. Louis don’t get a second chance to course-correct while mediocre white mayors get ...

Sam Hall, currently leading 579-573, said he's feeling "anxious" as he waits for the final results, but also "confident." ...

Adenah Bayoh, who fled a civil war in Africa, is is making history with an affordable housing project rising in the New ...