Just before she’s sworn in as the next Alexandria mayor, Alyia Gaskins began to settle into her new office at city hall, ...

He lost a bid for a second term to Maynard Jackson, his vice-mayor, who would become Atlanta’s first Black mayor and who had deep ties in the city’s African American community. The loss didn ...

Covered in black and white photos of his time as ... Shirley Franklin, Atlanta’s first female mayor, remembered straining to get a view of Young at the March on Washington when she was 18.