11.   Brown is the first black elected mayor here.

12.   But like the other black mayors, Young also presided over a city that more than once came close to bankruptcy.

13.   Cambridge also has been proud of smashing institutional barriers and stereotypes, including electing a black mayor who is openly gay as well as gay city councilors.

14.   Carter said he appreciated the different faces found in local government, from a black mayor to an Asian American county executive to a black lesbian councilwoman.

15.   David Dinkins was the black Democratic mayor who preceded the Republican Giuliani in office.

16.   Faku, the countryUs first black mayor, stood at his offices in front of portraits of former mayors.

17.   For Bowser, a black mayor of a predominantly black city, the case was perhaps the thorniest political issue left behind by his predecessor, Cooper.

18.   He is black, and if elected he would be the first black mayor of any major city in Texas.

19.   He does so with no fear that anyone will hound him about his skeletons like the black mayor.

20.   His election as the first black mayor of a major and largely white city reflected a significant change in local politics in America.