Yemi Mobolade, a Nigerian immigrant and businessman with no previous political experience, will make history as the first Black mayor elected in Colorado Springs, Colorado, reports the Colorado Sun. He will succeed the city’s mayor John Suthers, a former federal…
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Tennessee city’s 1st Black mayor dies from COVID-19
Lonnie J. Norman, former mayor of Manchester, Tennessee. (Photo source: City of Manchester, Tennessee) Lonnie J. Norman, the first Black mayor of the small city of Manchester, Tennessee, died from complications associated with the novel coronavirus on Monday, Oct. 12,…
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