Former Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson: "Jackson is the trunk of the tree. And if Jackson dies, then all of the branches will die. So there needs to be a greater appreciation, in my mind, of the value of ...

A Memphis woman President Trump pardoned during his first term has been appointed as ‘pardon czar.’ In 2018, Alice Marie Johnson made national headlines after ...

The operator of the last charter schools in the state’s waning turnaround district asks to continue managing them under their ...

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 catalyzed a transformation in Atlanta’s political landscape. Five years ...

Unlike most cities, especially in the south, Atlanta has consistently been run by Black politicians since 1974, and there’s a ...

The Tennessee General Assembly is beginning to look at the state budget and what is going on in Washington needs to be ...

Over the past decade, the job description for the mayor of Chicago has included a new duty: responding to Donald Trump. The question before Brandon Johnson is, how does the freshman mayor come out ...

Former governor Andrew Cuomo hasn’t kicked off his comeback ... close association with Michael Bloomberg — the billionaire mayor, after an unpopular third term, had worn out his welcome ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson will testify before lawmakers on Capitol Hill next month as part of an investigation into U.S. sanctuary cities. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is setting up a potential showdown with Congress over Chicago's Sanctuary City Law. Johnson was invited to testify before a congressional committee ...