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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says of Trump: ‘Not going to negotiate with a terrorist’

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson made clear on Tuesday that he doesn’t intend to play nice with President Donald Trump to avert a potential withholding of more than $3 billion. “Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation, that’s terrorism. We’re not going to negotiate with terrorists,” said Johnson during a press conference, reports the Chicago Tribune. President Trump, determined to execute his agenda of mass deportations throughout the country, has […]

todayApril 15, 2025 1

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams makes clear he is not part of the Trump ‘resist movement’

New York City Mayor Eric Adams praised President Donald Trump’s policies and declared that he will not join the “resist movement” against the 47th president amid recent mass protests of the Trump administration and Elon Musk across the country. During a nearly 50-minute press conference with reporters on Tuesday, Adams, who announced last week he would no longer seek reelection as a Democrat but instead as an Independent, signaled he would continue to work with the Trump administration despite criticisms […]

todayApril 8, 2025 2

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams will skip Democratic primary and run for reelection as an independent

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday said he will pull out of the city’s Democratic primary and instead run for reelection as an independent, arguing that his recently dismissed federal bribery case had made it impossible to mount a primary campaign. In a video, Adams said he will not run in the Democratic primary in June because his criminal case “dragged on too long” while the “false accusations were held over me,” preventing him from campaigning. “I firmly believe that this city is […]

todayApril 3, 2025

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Shaundel Washington-Spivey elected first Black and LGBTQ mayor of La Crosse, Wis.

Voters in La Crosse, Wisconsin, made history on Tuesday when they elected the city’s first Black and openly gay mayor. Shaundel Washington-Spivey came out victorious in the local race against Chris Kahlow, winning by just 451 votes. “It means a lot,” Washington-Spivey told reporters Tuesday night of his historic win, reports WXOW 19. “When I think of the work that the Enduring Families Project has been doing in this community to shine a light on earlier Black settlers in La […]

todayApril 2, 2025

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Judge dismisses corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams

A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday, acquiescing to the Justice Department’s extraordinary request to set aside criminal charges so the Democrat could help with President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The judge, though, denied prosecutors the ability to potentially bring the criminal case back after the mayoral election. Judge Dale E. Ho’s order to dismiss the case “with prejudice” spares Adams from having to govern in a way that pleases Trump, or potentially risk having the Republican’s […]

todayApril 2, 2025 1

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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser explains plans to remove Black Lives Matter street mural: ‘We have bigger fish to fry’

A beloved street mural in Washington, D.C., is set to be removed following concerns and threats from President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans. Black Lives Matter Plaza near the city’s downtown and situated just north of The White House on 16th Street, NW, features the famous “Black Lives Matter” mural painted on the street in the wake of protests over police brutality after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020. In public statements addressing the residents of the […]

todayMarch 8, 2025

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Mayor Brandon Scott embraces being a ‘DEI hire,’ says today’s anti-DEI movement can be traced throughout Black history

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has personally felt the wrath of the political tide against so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion. In March 2024, when the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed—killing six and disrupting the nation’s supply chain–Mayor Scott was targeted by some Republicans and conservatives online who called him a “DEI hire.” The nickname suggested that Scott, elected by Baltimore voters in 2020 and reelected in 2024, only held his position because he is Black and was not […]

todayMarch 4, 2025 1

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Mayor Bibb says irony of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade is that racial equity was mandated by Republican president

Democratic Black mayors are on the frontlines of the opposition to President Donald Trump‘s crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion, among other dizzying actions coming from the White House. Mayor Justin Bibb of Cleveland, Ohio, the new chair of the Democratic Mayors Association, tells theGrio that he and other mayors are uniquely positioned to make the case for why DEI makes the United States stronger, not weaker. “This country was built on the backs of Black Americans when it comes […]

todayFebruary 25, 2025 2

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Judge adjourns trial for New York City Mayor Eric Adams but appoints counsel to advise on next steps

A federal judge on Friday adjourned the corruption trial for New York City Mayor Eric Adams and appointed counsel to advise him on how to handle the Justice Department’s controversial request to drop charges against the Democrat. The ruling by Judge Dale E. Ho will delay by at least a couple weeks when he will decide whether to grant the request to dismiss the case against the embattled mayor of the country’s largest city. At a hearing Wednesday, Acting Deputy U.S. […]

todayFebruary 21, 2025 2