Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot first black woman and openly gay person to be elected mayor of Chicago on April 2nd 2019.
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 2014’s President of Liberia and Africa’s first female head of state, won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting Liberian reconciliation and in atoning for Liberia’s history of civil war.
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LaToya Cantrell first black woman to be elected mayor of New Orleans, 2018.
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Willie Brown is the 1st black man to spend 30 years in the California State Assembly, spending 15 years as its speaker and later as the 41st mayor of San Francisco; 1996-2004.
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