The first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town has taken a landslide victory this week in a mayoral election – four years after white residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve.
Incumbent Mayor Patrick Braxton was elected as mayor of Newbern, after the town voted 66 to 26 in his favor. The win comes after a long-running dispute that eventually led to a lawsuit, in which Braxton accused town leaders of racial discrimination.
