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Black Women and Women of Color Run for Mayor In Major Cities
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August 14, 2021
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9:58Now PlayingBoston, Massachusetts has a long and historic reputation of racial segregation.
According to a 2017 investigative Boston Globe article, it found the city to be one of the most unwelcoming to Black people. A 2015 survey from the same paper revealed the median net worth of white Bostonians was $247,000 and $8 for Black Bostonians.
However, four out of the five candidates for the upcoming Boston mayoral elections are women, and three of them are Black. The two leading candidates are Asian American Michelle Wu and Black American Kim Janey, who is the acting mayor carrying out the rest of the former mayor’s term. If Janey is reelected, she would become the ninth Black woman in the country to be elected mayor.
Kimberly Peeler-Allen, visiting practitioner for the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, joins Marc Lamont Hill on “Black News Tonight” to discuss the rising trend of Black women running for major cities’ mayoral positions.
All this and more on “Black News Tonight.”
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