Supporters saw a safety resolution to reduce distracted driving. Opponents saw an attempt to disenfranchise Black aldermanic members during Black History Month.
Tishaura Jones is sworn in as St. Louis 47th mayor Tuesday.
Near the end of cementing the designation of becoming the first Black woman to serve as the mayor of St. Louis, Tishaura Jones capped off a speech of ambitious plans and transformative hopes fairly simply. My name is Tishaura Oneda Jones,” she told a crowd gathered in the rotunda at City Hall on Tuesday. I use the she/her pronouns. And I am the mayor of the city of St. Louis.
The swearing-in of Jones, a former state lawmaker and treasurer of St. Louis, was not only a milestone for Black women in St. Louis politics, it was a shifting of several decades of political philosophies in the mayor’s office.