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, ...
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Guardians of Black Miami: How these two women are preserving the city's diasporic legacy
Her mother’s family immigrated from Harbour Island in the Bahamas to Miami in 1903. Growing up surrounded by familial stories ...
Akron City Council commits $150,000 over 3 years for partnership with Black Chamber
Akron City Council voted Monday to provide $50,000 a year over three years to the new Black Chamber of Commerce-Summit County ...
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San Diego’s first Black city councilmember and county supervisor dies at 102. His legacy lives
Leon Williams moved to San Diego in 1941. Restaurants and hotels refused him service. Still, he wanted to serve the city that ...
Miami area saw second highest growth in Black businesses, just behind this major city
According to a new study on Black business in America, South Florida saw the second highest increase in the number of new ...
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Beaumont's first Black city manager reflects on diversity, challenges
Beaumont has only had a Black city manager for three of its nearly 190 years. But that’s nothing new for City Manager Kenneth Williams. In fact, he’s been the first Black City Manager in all ...