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Generation Outreach

Recognizes Local Public Servants

Susan Taylor EmpowersWomen through Speech atRochester YWCA Luncheon

Local News

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Social Security raise to be among lowest in years

national News

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Henrietta Town SupervisorSwitches to Democratic Party

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LOCALHenrietta Town Supervisor Switches to Democratic PartyHenriea Town Supervisor MichaelYudelson announced Friday he is

switching his party aliaon fromRepublican to Democrac.

Announcing his decision, Yudelsoncited irreconcilable philosophicaldierences with local and naonalRepublicans. Sadly, the RepublicanParty is allowing itself to be denedby extremists who put ideologyahead of governance and responsiblecizenship, said Yudelson, who hasserved as Henriea supervisor for sixyears. The shutdown of the federalgovernment and threatened naonaldefault are only the latest examplesof a party that has abandoned itsprinciples in the pursuit of a narrowpolical agenda.

The Tea Party fringe that now controlsthe Republicans agenda does notrepresent the party I once believedin and belonged to. My core beliefs

havent changed, but theirs have.

Yudelson was nominated byRepublicans in Henriea for anotherterm as supervisor, but subsequentlylost the designaon in a primarywaged by Republican Town Councilmember Jack Moore.

Jack is backed by many of the sameelements who are making a spectaclein Washington, Yudelson said.Moderates are losing their voice inthe Republican Party, and as a resultthey are seeking it elsewhere. Thatswhy Im here today, and I want tothank Chairman Morelle and everyonewhose support has always been soinvaluable to me.

Though weve belonged to dierentpolical pares, Mike Yudelson and Ihave always worked together for thecommon good, and I always considerhim a friend. I am now pleased to call

him a fellow Democrat as well, saidMonroe County Democrac Chair Joe

Morelle.

Morelle noted that he and Yudelsoncollaborated in a legislave eort topreserve the Henriea-based GeneseeValley Regional Market Authority in2010. People of good will can ndcommon ground even on dicultissues, a concept essenal to ourdemocracy but one that unfortunatelyhas been abandoned by many in theRepublican Party, Morelle said.

My party aliaon has changed, butmy commitment to my neighbors neverwill, and neither will my commitmentto scal conservasm and personalresponsibility. I look forward to a

vigorous campaign on behalf of thepeople of Henriea and connuing myservice to them next year.

Yudelson is also endorsed by the

Conservave and Independencepares. Friday was the deadline forocially changing party designaonprior to Elecon Day.

Henrieta Town Supervisor Michael Yudelson

Residents Want Answers about Red Light Cameras at Town Hall EventBy Delani Weaver

Rochesters rst town hall event was asight to see as an incredibly energeccrowd, including residents fromRochester, Webster, Greece and Gates,raised quesons about issues from redlight cameras to naonal security and

privacy to a panel of local leaders.

Rochester Police Chief JamesSheppard, former U.S. AorneyTerrance Flynn, WHAM 1180 talk showhost Bob Lonsberry, and Larry Krieger,a cizen who is currently pursuing legal

acon against Rochester because of ared light cket, made up the panel.

The town hall event, moderated bycommentator Mark Hyman, allowedresidents at the event, held in thetheater of Strongs Naonal Museumof Play and online via social media

websites such as Twier and Facebook,to ask their quesons and wait for aresponse from someone on the panel.

Several quesons addressed to ChiefSheppard were answered with mostlyquick and short replies.

One queson that was repeatedlyasked by residents was why MayorThomas Richards and/or City CouncilPresident and candidate for mayorLovely Warren, who voted in favor ofthe red light cameras, didnt aendthe town hall meeng.

Hyman said he would take the blamefor that and planned to have the rightpanel of ocials at the next town hallevent in Rochester.

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Over 1600 women and men aendedthe YWCA 2013 Empowering WomenLuncheon at the Rochester RiversideConvenon Center Tuesday aernoon.

Guests were seated and given lunch atthe sold-out event while they listenedto the history of the YWCA and itscontribuons to Rochester womenand children in need.

Founder and CEO of the NaonalCARES Mentoring Movement andEditor-in-Chief Emerita of EssenceMagazine Susan Taylor was keynotespeaker for the event.

Taylor told the crowd her story ofbeing a rising career woman withinEssence Magazine, her marriage,divorce and children. She said thatwomen need to use their wisdom tomake the city of Rochester a beerplace. Taylor encouraged the womenof the crowd to stay posive, takecare of themselves rst, and workhard to never give up on their dreamsregardless of their personal situaons.

In addion, Dellena Harper gaveanother inspiraonal story thatbrought emoon to the room. She wasonce a homeless and drug-addictedyoung woman, and spoke to the crowdabout how the YWCA changed her life.

Through tears, Harper said, I havea lot of bills and all of them are paidon me. I have my life on track and I

thank the YWCA for that.

Harper, who once lived in the JenniferHouse, is now the execuve directorof the Jennifer House - Spiritus ChrisPrison Outreach.

Funds from cket sales went toemergency housing shelters, enablingmore women and children in need ofshelter to have a good nights sleep fora longer period of me.

The annual luncheon is the YWCAslargest fundraiser, which raised$220,000 for the organizaon last year.

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Generation Outreach Recognizes Local Public ServantsBy Delani Weaver

Generaon Outreach, a localorganizaon owned and run byJusn Orz, held a Public ServiceAnnouncement Day Saturday morningat the Public Safety Building whereve local residents were honored bythe organizaon for their work andcontribuons to the community.

Director of public relaons RashadSmith said, We decided that wewanted to do something special forthose in our community who aredenitely stepping up and makingthings happen. We wanted to honorall of those who serve the public.

The honorees were:

Walter Sanders, Stascs-Breaker:An ocer of the Rochester PoliceDepartment who parcipates inand organizes games for the SpecialOlympics and Camp Good Days andSpecial Times.

Michael Peace, Community-Changer:He is the founder and pastor of BethelExpress. Peace houses displacedchildren and has changed many livesthrough his ministry.

Robert Baziw, Life-Saver:He is a reghter and EMT in the townof Greece. Baziw saved a four-year-

olds life in Ohio aer the boy drownedin a pool.

TJ Nolan, Dream-Developer:A military veteran who was injuredwhen his vehicle was bombed, Nolannow trains kids in boxing and life-development, and coaches a localyouth football team.

Jeremiah Kirkland, Career-Maker:A graduate of SUNY Brockport, Kirklandcompleted the Rochester GeneralYoung Apprence Program and is nowsupervisor of the program. He nowdemonstrates to young people that,through hard work and dedicaon, youcan turn a fun experience into a career

you love. Kirkland is now director ofWomens Health Services at Rochester

General Health System.

The event was sponsored by Wegmans,Foodlink, the Police Foundaon andlocal radio staon WDKX. Severalchildren, parents, community leadersand supporters aended, along withthe honorees, and were able to speakand take pictures with them.

Food was provided for guests whilethey listened to upliing songs suchas Flying Without Wings, We ShallOvercome, and Cant Give Up Nowsang by local singers Jessie Barnes andSerena Young.

The ceremony was also aended by

juvenile prosecutor for the MonroeCounty Law Department Paul Irving, acandidate who is currently running forMonroe County Court Judge, as well asmayoral candidate Lovely Warren.

We need young people like him(Jusn Orz), to pay it forward,Warren said. Im so excited to see allof the young beauful faces here. Weoen talk about and hear about all thenegave things that are going on withour young people in our city. To seepeople like Jusn, Generaon News,Generaon Outreach, every chancethat they get, they give back. Theyreach back, they never forget that towhom much is given, much is required.

And I appreciate them for that.

Warren took pictures and spoke tothe children about actually makingchanges, instead of just saying theywant to make changes, for theircommunity. She also thanked thehonorees for their work.

Someone once said that you cannotcross the sea by just looking at thewater, Warren said. What does thatmean? We can all stand on the shoreand look out and say I wanna get to theother side, but I just dont know howto get there. Well you have to gureit out. Either youre gonna jump inand swim across, or not. But you have

to gure it out. Somemes there willbe people to help you along the way.Somemes there will be people whollthrow road blocks. But today we honorthe people who put their lives on the

line every day and go out into ourcommunity and make sure that we aresafe. I appreciate them.

Each honoree was given a specialtle and a framed cercate for theireorts.

Orz said it was great to see theyoung people mingle with Warren,the honorees and other communityleaders.

Im so glad to see everyone that cameout and supported what were doing,he said. With Generaon Outreach,this is where were teaching youngpeople dierent trades, dierent

careers such as photography, graphicdesign, web design, mechanics andelectric. Were gonna get into all ofthat. Then, aer that, we want toprepare kids for the future. We want

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The event ended with a pledge wrienby Smith:

My community shall be my safe haven,if I must step up and lead. Peace is whatIm craving so I shall plant the seeds.My promise to love my neighbor isrooted deep within. Together we shalllabor so our community wins. I vow topay it forward. My help is needed now.I swear to act in kindness. Then I shalltake my bow.


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NEW YORK (AP) _ The Statue of Liberty has reopenedto the public aer the state agreed to shoulderthe costs of running the site during the federalgovernment shutdown.

Ferry trips from Manhaan to the Statue of Libertyresumed Sunday morning, and eager visitors werealready lining up.

New York state agreed last week to take over thedaily costs of keeping it open, about $61,600 per day.

New York has 33 sites under the jurisdicon of theNaonal Park Service, and they have been shutsince Oct. 1. The sites include the statue and nearbyEllis Island, which remains closed for repairs since

Superstorm Sandy last year.

Nearly 4 million people visited Lady Liberty in 2011,generang $174 million in economic acvity, thepark service said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - For the second

straight year, millions of Social Securityrecipients, disabled veterans andfederal rerees can expect historicallysmall increases in their benets comeJanuary.

Preliminary gures suggest a benetincrease of roughly 1.5 percent, whichwould be among the smallest sinceautomac increases were adopted in1975, according to an analysis by TheAssociated Press.

Next years raise will be small becauseconsumer prices, as measured by thegovernment, havent gone up much inthe past year.

The exact size of the cost-of-livingadjustment, or COLA, wont be knownunl the Labor Department releasesthe inaon report for September. Thatwas supposed to happen Wednesday,but the report was delayed indenitelybecause of the paral governmentshutdown.

The COLA is usually announced inOctober to give Social Security andother benet programs me to adjustJanuary payments. The Social Security

Administraon has given no indicaonthat raises would be delayed becauseof the shutdown, but advocates for

seniors said the uncertainty wasunwelcome.

Social Security benets have connuedduring the shutdown.

More than one-h of the country iswaing for the news.

Nearly 58 million rerees, disabledworkers, spouses and children getSocial Security benets. The averagemonthly payment is $1,162. A 1.5percent raise would increase thetypical monthly payment by about$17.

The COLA also aects benets for

more than 3 million disabled veterans,about 2.5 million federal rerees andtheir survivors, and more than 8 millionpeople who get Supplemental SecurityIncome, the disability program for thepoor.

Automac COLAs were adopted so thatbenets for people on xed incomeswould keep up with rising prices. Manyseniors, however, complain that theCOLA somemes falls short, leavingthem lile wiggle room.

David Waugh of Bethesda, Md., saidhe can handle one small COLA butseveral in a row make it hard to planfor unexpected expenses.

Im not one of those folks thats goingto fall into poverty, but it is going to

make a dierence in my standard ofliving as me goes by, said Waugh, 83,who rered from the United Naons.I live in a small apartment and I havean old car, and its going to breakdown. And no doubt when it does, Illhave to x it or get a new one.

Since 1975, annual Social Securityraises have averaged 4.1 percent. Onlysix mes have they been less than2 percent, including this year, whenthe increase was 1.7 percent. Therewas no COLA in 2010 or 2011 becauseinaon was too low.

By law, the cost-of-living adjustmentis based on the Consumer Price Index

for Urban Wage Earners and ClericalWorkers, or CPI-W, a broad measureof consumer prices generated bythe Bureau of Labor Stascs. Itmeasures price changes for food,housing, clothing, transportaon,energy, medical care, recreaon andeducaon.

The COLA is calculated by comparingconsumer prices in July, August andSeptember each year to prices in thesame three months from the previousyear. If prices go up over the course ofthe year, benets go up, starng withpayments delivered in January.

This year, average prices for July and

August were 1.4 percent higher thanthey were a year ago, according to theCPI-W.

Once the September report, the nalpiece of the puzzle, is released, theCOLA can be announced ocially. Ifprices connued to slowly inch up inSeptember, that would put the COLAat roughly 1.5 percent.

Several economists said there were nodramac price swings in Septemberto signicantly increase or decreasethe projected COLA. That means theprojecon shouldnt change by morethan a few tenths of a percentagepoint, if at all.

Polina Vlasenko, a research fellow atthe American Instute for EconomicResearch, projects the COLA will be

between 1.4 percent and 1.6 percent.

Her projecon is similar to thosedone by others, including AARP, whichesmates the COLA will be between1.5 percent and 1.7 percent. TheSenior Cizens League esmates it willbe about 1.5 percent.

Lower prices for gasoline are helpingto fuel low inaon, Vlasenko said.

In years with high COLAs, a lot of thathad to do with fuel prices and in somecases food prices. Neither of thoseincreased much this year, Vlasenkosaid. So that kept the lid on the overallincrease in prices.

Gasoline prices are down 2.4 percentfrom a year ago while food prices areup slightly, according to the Augustinaon report. Housing costs wentup 2.3 percent and ulies increasedby 3.2 percent.

Advocates for seniors say thegovernments measure of inaondoesnt accurately reect priceincreases older Americans facebecause they tend to spend moreof their income on health care.Medical costs went up less than inprevious years but sll outpaced otherconsumer prices, rising 2.5 percent.

This (COLA) is not enough to keep upwith inaon, as it aects seniors,said Max Richtman, who heads theNaonal Commiee to Preserve SocialSecurity and Medicare. There aresome things that become cheaper butthey are not things that seniors buy.Laptop computers have gone downdramacally but how many people at70 are buying laptop computers?

The cost of personal computersdropped by 10.6 percent over the pastyear, according the CPI-W.

Thats a small consolaon to AlbertaGaskins of the District of Columbia,who said she is concerned aboutkeeping up with her household bills.

It is very important to get the COLAbecause everything else you have inyour life is on an upward swing, andif youre on a downward swing, thatmeans your quality of life is goingdown, said Gaskins, who rered fromthe Postal Service in 1989.

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People in Ohio, Michigan and 15 otherstates found themselves temporarilyunable to use their food stamp debit-

style cards on Saturday, aer a rounetest of backup systems by vendor XeroxCorp. resulted in a system failure.Xerox announced late in the eveningthat access has been restored for usersin the 17 states aected by the outage,hours aer the rst problems werereported.

Restarng the EBT system requiredme to ensure service was back atfull funconality, spokeswomanJennifer Wasmer said in an email.An emergency voucher process wasavailable in some of the areas whilethe problems were occurring, she said.

U.S. Department of Agriculture

spokeswoman Courtney Roweunderscored that the outage was notrelated to the government shutdown.

Earlier Saturday shoppers le carts ofgroceries behind at a packed MarketBasket grocery store in Biddeford,Maine, because they couldnt gettheir benets, said shopper BarbaraColman, of Saco, Maine. The managerput up a sign saying the EBT systemwas not in use. Colman, who receivesthe benets, called an 800 telephoneline for the program and it said thesystem was down due to maintenance,she said.

Thats a problem. There are a lot offamilies who are not going to be ableto feed children because the system

is being maintenanced, Colman said.She planned to reach out to localocials. You dont want childrengoing hungry tonight because ofstupidity, she said.

Colman said the store managerpromised her that he would honor thedays store yer discounts next week.

Wasmer said the states aected bythe temporary outage also includedAlabama, California, Georgia, Iowa,Illinois, Louisiana, Massachuses,Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey,Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas andVirginia.

Ohios cash and food assistancecard payment systems went downat 11 a.m., said Benjamin Johnson, aspokesman for the Ohio Departmentof Job and Family Services. Johnsonsaid Xerox asked retailers to revert toa manual system, meaning customerscould spend up to $50 unl the systemwas restored.

Illinois residents began reporngproblems with their cards - known asLINK in that state - on Saturday morning,said Januari Smith, spokeswomanfor the Illinois Department of HumanServices.

Smith said that typically when thecards arent working retailers can call abackup phone number to nd out how

much money customers have availablein their account. But that informaonalso was unavailable because of theoutage, so customers werent able touse their cards.

It really is a bad situaon but theyare working to get it xed as soon aspossible, Smith said.

In Clarksdale, Miss. - one of the poorestparts of one of the poorest states in thenaon - cashier Eliza Shook said dozensof customers at Corner Grocery hadto put back groceries when the cardsfailed Saturday because they couldntaord to pay for the food. Aer severalhours, she put a sign on the front door

to tell people about the problem.

Its been terrible, Shook said in aphone interview. Its just been someangry folks. Thats what a lot of folksdepend on.

Mississippi Department of HumanServices director Rickey Berryconrmed that Xerox, the states EBTvendor, had computer problems.

I know there are a lot of mad people,Berry said.

Sheree Powell, a spokeswoman for

the Oklahoma Department of HumanServices, started receiving calls around11:30 a.m. about problems with

the states card systems. More than600,000 Oklahomans receive SNAPbenets, and money is dispersed tothe cards on the rst, h and 10thdays of every month, so the disruponcame at what is typically a high-useme for the cards.

Oklahoma also runs a separate debitcard system for other state benetslike unemployment payments. Thosecards can be used at ATMs to withdrawcash. Powell said Xerox administersboth the EBT and debit card systems,and they both were down inially.

Powell said that some grocery storecashiers had been speculang that

the federal governments shutdowncaused the problem, but state ocialshave been assured that that is not thecase.

Powell said Oklahomas Xeroxrepresentave told them that theproblems stemmed from a powerfailure at a data center.

It just takes a while to reboot thesesystems, she said.

Xerox: Access restored for food stamp users

Ex-US Rep. Gabby Giffords attends NY gun showSARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Asmiling Gabrielle Giords touredrows of tables loaded with ries andhandguns in her rst visit to a gunshow since surviving a 2011 shoong,and pleaded aerward for people tocome together to stop gun violence.

The former Arizona congresswomanvisited the Saratoga Springs ArmsFair on Sunday with her astronauthusband, Mark Kelly and New YorkAorney General Eric Schneidermanto highlight a voluntary agreementthat closely monitors gun show sales

in New York.

The trio mixed with a gun show crowdthat was mostly welcoming - with afew hosle undertones - before callingfor people to build on the cooperaveeort.

We must never stop ghng, Giordssaid at a post-tour news conference,her st in the air. Fight! Fight! Fight!Be bold! Be courageous!

Giords, a face of the naonal guncontrol eort, slowly walked hand-in-hand with Kelly through the largeroom where Winchester ries, muzzle-loaders, anque knives and other

weapons were on display and DontTread on Me ags hung from poles.

They stopped at display tables, Kellyasked dealers quesons about theweapons, and Giords shook hands

and smiled when people greetedher. Good to see you looking good!some said. Kelly bought a book on Coltrevolvers, and said later he probablywould have bought a gun if he had hadmore me. He said both he and hiswife are gun owners.

The trio was greeted by light applausewhen introduced at the newsconference, but some people booedfrom across the room. Many at theshow said the couple made a goodimpression.

Dealer Joe Albano, who chaed withKelly about his muzzle-loaders, saidthe couple was nice. But he also saidhe was against New Yorks recent guncontrol law, which is separate from theSchneiderman iniave.

If she can help us, ne, Albano said.Were doing everything right here.Were legal.

Under the agreements worked outby Schneiderman, all rearms aretagged at the entrances to gun shows.Operators must provide computerstaons for sellers to do naonalbackground checks.

As they are taken away through alimited number of exits, guns arechecked to make sure backgroundchecks were performed. No buyers canleave a show without documentaonof a proper sale.

Schneiderman, who has worked withall 35 gun show operators in New York,showed the couple how the processworked.

Its great to see government andlicensed rearms dealers workingtogether to solve a problem, Kellysaid.

Giords was shot in the head whilemeeng with constuents in Tucson.

Six people died.

Though it was mostly smiles inside,about a dozen protesters rallied outsidethe gun show holding signs crical ofNew Yorks new law that expanded a

ban on military-style weapons, amongother things. The law was passednot long aer the December schoolmassacre at Sandy Hook ElementarySchool in Conneccut.

Kenneth Hall, who held a sign with aswaska that read in part gun controlmade the Holocaust possible, said theNew York background check was notneeded.

I believe this is a publicity stunt

for Mark Kelly and Gabby Giords,Hall said. They say theyre SecondAmendment supporters. I dontbelieve they are.

Ex-US Rep. Gabby Giords, second from le


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The highlightof the remarksgiven recentlyby JohnnyFord, mayor ofTuskegee, Ala.,at the JordanHealth CenterL u n c h e o nincluded thefollowing history

of black mayorsin this country.

They boarded a train that le thestaon beginning in 1868.

The conductor of the train is theNaonal Conference of Black Mayors,and that train is now headed toRochester, N.Y. The following data andformat (with the excepon of 2013) Ichose to use in revising the mayorsremarks came not only from him, butI also completed the history lessonhe gave by paying tribute to mayoralcandidate Lovely Warren.

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First African-American elected mayorof a U.S. town: Pierre Caliste Landry,Donaldsonville, La. 1869

First African-American mayor ofMaryville, Tenn: W. B. Sco 1888

First African-American mayor of apredominately white U.S. town, and ofa western U.S. town: Edward Duplex,Wheatland, Calif. 1966

First African-American mayor of aU.S. city: Robert C. Henry, Springeld,Ohio (He was appointed by a citycommission.) 1967First African-American electedmayor of a large U.S. city: Carl Stokes(Cleveland, Ohio)First African-American elected mayorof Gary, Ind., Richard G. HatcherFirst African-American appointedmayor of Washington, D.C., WalterWashington (see also: 1975) 1968

First African-American elected mayorof Montclair, N.J., Mahew G. CarterFirst African-American mayor of aKentucky city: Luska Twyman, Glasgow,Ky.First African-American elected mayorof a predominantly white southerncity: Howard Nathaniel Lee, ChapelHill, N. C. 1969First African-American elected mayorof a Mississippi city: Charles Evers,Fayee, Miss. 1970

First African-American elected mayorof Newark, N.J.: Kenneth A. GibsonFirst African-American elected mayorof Dayton, Ohio: James H. McGeeFirst African-American appointedmayor of Wichita, Kan.: A. Price

WoodardFirst African-American elected mayorof Salina, Kan.: Robert C. Caldwell 1971

First African-American appointedmayor of Grand Rapids, Mich.: LymanParks (see also: 1973) 1972

First African-American mayor ofTallahassee, Fla.: James R. FordFirst African-American mayor ofCincinna, Ohio: Ted Berry 1973

First African-American elected mayorof Detroit, Mich.: Coleman YoungFirst African-American elected mayorof Raleigh, N.C.: Clarence LightnerFirst African-American elected mayorof a major southern city: MaynardJackson, Atlanta, Ga.First African-American elected mayorof a major western city: Tom Bradley,Los Angeles, Calif.First African-American woman mayorof a major satellite city: Doris A. Davis,Compton, Calif.First African-American elected mayorof Grand Rapids, Mich.: Lyman Parks(see also: 1971) 1975

First African-American elected mayor,and rst elected mayor, of Washington,D.C.: Walter Washington (see also:1967) 1977

First African-American mayor ofRichmond, Va.: Henry L. Marsh (Note:He was elected from within nine citycouncil members; it was changed togeneral elecon in 2003.) 1978

First African-American elected mayorof Oakland, Calif.: Lionel WilsonFirst African-American elected mayorof New Orleans: Ernest Nathan Morial 1979

First African-American electedmayor of Birmingham, Ala.: RichardArrington, Jr. 1981

First African-American elected mayorof Camden, N.J.: Randy PrimasFirst African-American elected mayorof Spokane, Wash.: James EvereChase 1982

First African-American appointedmayor of Memphis, Tenn.: J.O.Paerson, Jr. 1983

First African-American elected mayorof Chicago: Harold WashingtonFirst African-American elected mayorof Charloe, N.C.: Harvey Gan 1984

First African-American elected mayorof Atlanc City, N.J.: James L. UsryFirst African-American elected mayorof Philadelphia, Pa.: Wilson GoodeFirst African-American elected mayorof Portsmouth, Va: James W. Holley, III 1987

First African-American appointedmayor of Balmore, Md.: Clarence H.Burns 1988First African-American elected mayorof Balmore, Md.: Kurt SchmokeFirst African-American elected mayorof Hempstead, N.Y.: James A. Garner

1989

First African-American elected mayorof New York, N.Y.: David DinkinsFirst African-American elected mayorof New Haven, Conn.: John C. DanielsFirst African-American elected mayorof Richmond, Calif.: George LivingstonFirst African-American elected mayorof Rockford, Ill.: Charles BoxFirst African-American elected mayorof Seale, Wash.: Norm Rice 1990

First African American elected mayorof Trenton, N.J.: Douglas PalmerFirst African-American elected mayorof New Bern, N.C.: Leander R. LeeMorgan 1991

First African-American elected mayorof Memphis, Tenn.: W. W. HerentonFirst African-American elected mayorof Denver, Colo.: Wellington WebbFirst African-American elected mayorof Kansas City, Mo.: Emanuel CleaverFirst African-American woman electedmayor of Washington, D.C.: SharonPra Kelly 1993

First African-American elected mayorof St. Louis, Mo.: Freeman Bosley, Jr.First African-American elected mayorof Rochester, N.Y.: William A. Johnson,Jr. 1994

First African-American and rst womanelected mayor of Minneapolis, Minn.:Sharon Sayles Belton 1995First African-American elected mayorof Dallas, Texas: Ron KirkFirst African-American electedmayor of Jeaneree, La.:James T.K.Alexander Sr. 1996First African-American elected mayorof San Francisco, Calif.: Willie Brown 1997

First African-American elected mayorof Jackson, Miss.: Harvey Johnson, Jr.First African-American elected mayorof Houston, Texas: Lee P. Brown 2000

First African-American elected mayorof Columbus, Ohio: Michael B.ColemanFirst African-American elected mayorof Selma, Ala.: James Perkins, Jr. 2001

First African-American elected mayorof Haesburg, Miss.: Johnny L. DupreeFirst African-American woman mayorof major southern city, and rst womanto be elected mayor of Atlanta, Ga.:Shirley FranklinFirst African-American and rstwoman elected mayor of Southeld,Mich.: Brenda L. LawrenceFirst African-American elected mayorof Heidelberg, Miss.: Juan Barne 2002

First African-American woman electedmayor of Dayton, Ohio: Rhine McLinFirst African-American elected mayorof Toledo, Ohio: Jack Ford 2003

First African-American elected mayorof Palm Springs, Calif.: Ron OdenFirst African American elected bycizens as mayor of Tallahassee, Fla.:John Marks

First African-American elected mayor,and rst elected mayor, of San Ramon,Calif.: H. Abram Wilson 2004

First African-American elected mayorof Baton Rouge, La.: Kip HoldenFirst African-American mayor ofMilwaukee, Wis.: Marvin PraFirst African-American elected mayorof Pine Blu, Ark.: Carl A. Redus, Jr. 2005

First African-American elected mayorof Bualo, N.Y.: Byron BrownFirst African-American elected mayorof Mobile, Ala.: Sam JonesFirst African-American elected mayorof Asheville, N.C.: Terry BellamyFirst African-American elected mayorof Cincinna, Ohio: Mark MalloryFirst African-American elected mayorof Youngstown, Ohio: Jay Williams 2006

First African-American elected mayorof Shreveport, La.: Cedric GloverFirst African-American elected mayorof Anderson, S.C.: Terence Roberts 2007

First African-American woman and rstwoman elected mayor of Balmore,Md.: Sheila DixonFirst African-American elected mayorof Greensboro, N.C.: Yvonne JohnsonFirst African-American elected mayorof Wichita, Kan.: Carl BrewerFirst African-American elected mayorof South Harrison Township, N.J.:Charles Tyson 2008

First African-American elected mayorof Blue Springs, Mo.: Carson RossFirst African-American elected mayorof Lancaster, Texas: Marcus KnightFirst African-American elected mayorof Manseld, Ohio: Donald CulliverFirst African-American elected mayorof Sacramento, Calif.: Kevin JohnsonFirst African-American mayor ofFestus, Mo.: Earl Cook 2009

First African-American elected mayorof Philadelphia, Miss: James YoungFirst African-American elected mayorof Freeport, N.Y.: Andrew HardwickFirst African-American and rst womanelected mayor of Saratoga Springs,Utah, and rst African-Americanwoman elected mayor in Utah: MiaLove 2010

First African-American and rstAfrican-American woman electedmayor of Fontana, Calif.: AcquaneaWarrenFirst African-American elected mayorof Columbia, S.C.: Stephen K. Benjamin 2011

First African American elected mayorof Jacksonville, Fla.: Alvin Brown 2012

First African-American mayor of Ithaca,N.Y.: Svante MyrickFirst African-American mayor ofAnoch, Calif.: Wade Harper 2013 (Projected as of November 5,2013)First African-American woman andyoungest elected mayor of Rochester,N.Y.,Lovely Warren.

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