- cross-posted to:
- politics
- cross-posted to:
- politics
For decades, white officials appointed Newbern’s mayor and council members in lieu of holding elections. Most residents weren’t even aware that there were supposed to be elections for these positions.
The settlement will reinstate Patrick Braxton as the mayor of Newbern, the first Black person to hold the position.
Braxton was the only candidate who filed qualifying paperwork with the county clerk in 2020, so he won the mayoral race by default. The incumbent, Haywood “Woody” Stokes III, hadn’t even bothered to fill out the paperwork to run again. Haywood Stokes Jr., his father, had previously been mayor of the rural Black Belt town.
Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16944653
I don’t know how to follow a story like this but it’s interesting to me
For sure. I doubt they’ll nullify anything tho