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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Karen Bass was sworn in as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles Sunday in a historic inauguration at the Microsoft Theater, becoming the first woman and second Black person to lead the city. Bass was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, a former California senator and the first woman […]
Comment on this story Comment LOS ANGELES — It was one month before a momentous mayoral election here and the nation’s second-largest city was in disarray. A now-infamous audio recording had just surfaced, capturing . . .
Earle, Ark., Mayor-elect Jaylen Smith. (Courtesy of Jaylen Smith) Though he still lives at home with his parents, 18-year-old Jaylen Smith is now the youngest Black mayor in U.S. history after the college freshman won an election on Tuesday to become head city official of Earle, Ark. “I’m grateful to have an opportunity to be […]
The town of Earle, Arkansas has a new mayor – and he’s only 18 years old. Jaylen Smith won election as the next mayor Earle on Tuesday night, triumphing with a platform of revitalising the town, creating new jobs, enhancing public safety, and adding public transportation options and setting himself up to become the youngest […]
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones will appoint a reparations commission to hold hearings on how to make amends for past treatment of Black Americans. The panel will hold monthly meetings and has no stated deadline for recommendations. Jones, a Democrat, signed an executive order Wednesday establishing a volunteer commission that will recommend how the
It is not even a year since Jaylen Smith was learning the power of the youth vote as a student government leader at his high school in Arkansas. Now the pioneering teenager is about to put his knowledge into practice as the youngest elected Black mayor anywhere in the US. On Tuesday, as the Georgia […]
Jaylen Smith made history this week as he was elected the mayor of Earle, Arkansas, which will make him the youngest black mayor in the United States. Smith, 18, defeated his opponent, Nemi Matthews Sr., in Tuesday night’s runoff election with 218 votes to Matthews’s 139, according to the
Jaylen Smith has been elected as the mayor of Earle, Arkansas, on the night of Tuesday, December 6th, making him the youngest Black mayor in America! The 18-year-old candidate defeated Nemi Matthews Sr. in a runoff election with 218 votes compared to Matthews’ 139, according to election results. Matthews is the superintendent of Earle and […]
Jaylen Smith: Arkansas elects youngest black mayor in US BBC The Youngest U.S. BLACK MAYOR Has Been Elected At Just 18-Years-Old! | New York’s Power 105.1 FM iHeart Arkansas town elects youngest Black . . .
A statue of Coleman Young, Detroit’s first Black mayor, will replace the full-length marble statue of Lewis Cass in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall after a Senate resolution was also adopted by the House Tuesday.