A statue of Coleman Young, Detroit’s first Black mayor, will replace the full-length marble statue of Lewis Cass in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall after a Senate resolution was also ...

The legendary Coleman A. Young won that election and would lead Detroit for two decades as the city's first Black mayor. Detroit in 2013 was more than 80% Black.

The Detroit News complained Young’s language was “calculated to incite the Black community” and suggested he was engaging in “racism in reverse.” Then, Nichols decided to run for mayor.

Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young (Photo by David Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Young was the first Black mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1994.

Communities across Metro Detroit broke barriers in this week's election, tapping Black and female candidates to serve as city council members and mayors, diversifying elected bodies in ways they ...

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A new initiative is trying to elect the first ever Black woman or nonbinary person to serve as Michigan's governor, U.S. senator and mayor of Detroit.

Four Metro Detroit communities experienced historic election nights on Tuesday when voters elected a slate of diverse candidates who became their city's first openly gay, Black, Arab American and ...

The legendary Coleman A. Young won that election and would lead Detroit for two decades as the city's first Black mayor. Detroit in 2013 was more than 80% Black.