Johnson likens himself to second coming of Harold Washington
With poll ratings in the single digits, Johnson made another stop on his rehabilitation tour with Black voters. The forum ...
Grieving Mother Presses D.C. Mayor About Officers ‘Unconstitutional’ Pardons
Brown's mother was escorted out of the press conference after asking Mayor Muriel Bowser over Trump calling her son "illegal.
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The ‘Re-Reconstruction’: Mayor Brandon Johnson doubles down on outreach to Black Chicago
On New Year’s Day, Mayor Brandon Johnson welcomed 2025 by reminding Chicago leaders of the headwinds Black politicians like him face. The mayor sent a Crusader piece from last October titled ...
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This Woman Staged a Cross Burning to Help Elect First Black Mayor of Colorado Springs
Deanna West pleaded guilty in Denver federal court to the 2023 incident. Prosecutors claim West was one of three conspirators ...
D.C.’s BLM street painting is nearly gone. What about all the others?
Although D.C.’s iconic Black Lives Matter Plaza is being torn up, other street art from the summer of 2020 remains, and a few ...
The ‘Re-Reconstruction’: Mayor Brandon Johnson doubles down on outreach to Black Chicago
Texts from Mayor Brandon Johnson paint a picture of a freshman executive entrenching further into his identity as a Black mayor.
Ex-Mayor hits out at Liverpool Council's handling of African Caribbean centre row
In her letter to the current council leader, seen by the ECHO, she said the potential decision to relocate the African ...
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Are Black Mayors Being Pushed Out of Office?
The mayors of New York, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh all stand to lose their seats in the coming weeks. They also all happen to be Black.
Black leaders urge Kansas City Council to fire suspended City Manager Brian Platt
Brian Platt was suspended after a jury awarded $930,000 to a former city employee who filed a whistle blower suit against the ...
‘A city that basically screwed them’: West Palm Beach leaders stunned by old, racist city plans
WEST PALM BEACH — No one in the City Hall meeting room, surely, was under any illusions about their city’s segregated past, ...
What We Saw as the Black Lives Matter Plaza Mural Was Removed
The Black Lives Matter mural in Washington, D.C., was painted in June 2020 amid nationwide protests over the murder of George ...
With L.A.’s mayor facing a recall threat, her supporters go after billionaires
Supporters of Mayor Karen Bass have begun ramping up their defense of her, warning that right-wing billionaires are 'coming ...