Recent years have seen an increase in the number of African Americans elected to political office in cities where the majority of their constituents are not bla
On November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the nation's first African-American mayors to govern their cities. Ten years late
Recent years have seen an increase in the number of African Americans elected to political office in cities where the majority of their constituents are not bla
"J. Phillip Thompson III, an insider in the Dinkins administration, provides the first in-depth look at how the black mayors of America's major cities achieve s