Wilma White Irvin, a pillar in the south Kenner community and the first Black person and woman to serve a full term on the City Council, died Jan. 22.

Nury Martinez resigned Monday as president of the Los Angeles City Council after she made disdainful and racist comments about the Black child of a fellow councilmember.

A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...

Councilman Curren Price led Wednesday’s presentation. Five years ago, he led efforts to establish Juneteenth as an official ...

Currently represented by six white men and one Black man, the existing council districts include one majority Black district (District 4, on the county’s west side) and two others that are also ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – In speaking out Tuesday night about Cuyahoga County’s investments in Israel amid the war on Gaza, Rev. Regis E. Bunch equated the white members of county council to slave ...

Last week, White showed up at a council hearing on his case wearing a T-shirt that declared “THE FBI KILLED FRED HAMPTON” — a reference to the Illinois Black Panther Party leader who was ...