Dr. Christopher Harvey, the mayor of Manor, Texas, attended the 2025 African American Mayors Association conference to ...

New Orleans is that kind of community where we all need to get along with each other,” said longtime a congregation member.

Progressive icon and former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee declared victory Saturday as the new mayor of troubled Oakland, a San Francisco Bay Area city reeling from economic ...

For family and friends, the downtown bronze statue dedication for Harriet Elizabeth “Liz” Byrd is something “long overdue.” ...

Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Pamela Goodwine — the first Black woman elected to the high court — was officially sworn into ...

The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, ...

Top officials in the Cantrell administration have claimed for months that the city is headed toward a fiscal crisis. But new ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

Commission says Cantrell violated La. constitution by pressuring NOPD to alter its federally mandated promotion process after ...

In aiding a controversial candidate's shot at a promotion, Supt. Anne Kirkpatrick told officers, "Mayor Cantrell was the boss ...

Although the office of mayor has lost some luster and developed limitations in recent years, it still has more direct ...

Look here Months after federal indictments, Oakland land deal for new ... Black civil rights organization whose Oakland chapter took a particular dislike of Thao during her fraught tenure as mayor.