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Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced her candidacy for mayor Tuesday with a campaign video that calls out Boston s “deep racial inequities,” invokes a host of civil rights and political leaders, and casts her career as one which follows in their footsteps.
Then-City Council President Janey became acting mayor last month as the city charter dictates when predecessor Marty Walsh became U.S. Secretary of Labor. Because the string of white males in city hall s top job had been unbroken, Janey s status as a Black woman catapulted her to national attention. Janey s video celebrates her historic position and makes it a focal point of her campaign.
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A history of Black candidates running to be Bostonâs mayor
By Meghan E. Irons Globe Staff,Updated April 5, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Mel King marched in the Columbus Day parade in 1983 during his mayoral campaign in which he lost to Kevin White.joe dennehy
She said she was a âblipâ in Black Bostonâs mayoral history, barely a reference in the record books.
But Deahdra Butler-Henderson, then a single mother from Jamaica Plain, took one small step in a long march through history for Black representation in City Hall when she began her impossible campaign for mayor in 1975.
The 2013 Election: Marking Marty Walsh s taking of the Mayor s Chair dotnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dotnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.