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Coleman Alexander Young (May 24, 1918 – November 29, 1997) was an American politician who served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Young was the first African-American mayor of Detroit and has been described as the "single most influential person in Detroit's modern history."
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young served five terms as mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1994. In this 1989 photo, he poses for atop the Riverfront Towers apartments overlooking downtown Detroit.
Political figures such as Mayor Coleman Young enacted policies which attempted to integrate the city. Young began with changes to the police and fire departments, implementing a two-list system which gave African Americans an equal chance of promotion; his goal was to balance the departments' racial and gender makeup.
Meanwhile, Young accused Republicans involved in the planned rallies of having been scheming to aid Bell's candidacy. [12] On the eve of the primary election, the Associated Press saw Nichols and Ravitz as being the front-runners. [5] It saw the two Black candidates, Bell and Young, as being the next-strongest contenders. [5]
William L. Hart (January 17, 1924 – November 22, 2003) [1] was a Detroit Police Chief for almost 15 years, [2] a position for which he was hired by Coleman Young, the mayor of the Detroit, in 1976; [2] Hart was a political ally and adviser of Young's. [3]
Fellow inmate Shane McMillan, 49, stabbed Nassar six times in the chest and twice each in the neck and back, according to Joe Rojas, president of Local 506, the union that represents Coleman ...
UPDATED: The ongoing BBC scandal has become murkier after a second young person has spoken out about the top presenter currently under the scanner. A young person in their early 20s told BBC News ...
Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is an American former politician and convicted felon who served as the 72nd mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented the 9th district in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002.