A high-ranking Oakland city official has been fired after a note she wrote last year that appeared to refer to black people ...

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

Even before Mayor Tishaura Jones was sworn in as the first African American female mayor, the murmurs of the curse started to ...

The sweep at the mayor’s office appeared to follow public backlash toward Leigh Hanson, the former top Thao aide who was ...

Ed Gainey swept into office vowing to improve life for Black Pittsburghers. The new mayor of Pennsylvania’s second-largest ...

Lee tells theGrio she is concerned about Black and brown communities being used as "pawns in the Trump administration's ...

In a historic win, Shaundel Washington-Spivey defeated City Council President Chris Kahlow in La Crosse's mayoral race this week, becoming the first Black mayor and first openly LGBTQ+ mayor in the ...

The party committee previously endorsed white men in the 2021 and 2017 mayor’s races, but primary voters chose a Black man and Latina woman. All five candidates have submitted enough petitions ...