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The Story of Chicago’s 1st Black Mayor Will Be Told in a New Limited Series From Fosse/Verdon Writer Ike Holter
Chi-Town, stand up! The life of an influential political figure and Chicago’s first Black mayor Harold Washington will soon be headed to a screen near us. Deadline announced today that Fosse/Verdon writer Ike Holter will pen the script for the limited series under Paylocity founder Steve Sarowitz and Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios. The untitled project…
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A Long Time Coming: Montgomery Elects Its First Black Mayor, Steven Reed
In more than 200 years, Montgomery, Ala.—the first capital of the Confederacy and the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement—has never had a black mayor. That changed Tuesday night, with voters decisively electing county probate judge Steven Reed to office. Reed secured 67 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s runoff election, beating his opponent, local…