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New St. Louis Mayor-elect Enjoys California Connection

Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff WriterApril 15, 2021

The election of Tishaura Jones as the first Black woman mayor of St. Louis drew loud cheers from people in California. That’s because Jones boasts deep ties throughout the Golden State despite her impressive career in Missouri.

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Virginia Charlottesville Charlottesville mayor’s poem about city, racism ‘hits nerve’

Associated Press March 28, 2021

Nikuyah Walker, the first Black woman to be mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, has posted poetry on Twitter and Facebook that has drawn national attention for descriptions of a picturesque college town that is indelibly linked to a slave-owning U.S. president and a deadly white nationalist rally.