Ella Jones elected Ferguson's first black mayor
, Ella Jones, a Ferguson City Council member and pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is Ferguson’s first black and first woman mayor, elected with 54 percent of the vote.
Good news is in short supply these days, but Jones’s election is cause for optimism: She was the first black woman elected to Ferguson’s City Council in 2015, the, where she has been critical of law enforcement. In her campaign, she pledged to uphold “a federal consent decree, a legally binding agreement requiring reforms to a police department.”
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Ferguson Just Elected Its First Black MayorFerguson, Missouri, the city where protests helped propel the Black Lives Matter movement into a nationwide crusade, elected its first Black mayor Tuesday night. Ella Jones will also be the city’s first female mayor
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Ferguson elects first black mayor in city's historyElla Jones becomes the first woman and first black mayor of Ferguson, Missouri. The result comes nearly six years after the death of black teen in the city set off weeks of nationwide protests and outrage.
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