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For the first time, Boston is set to have a mayor
who is Black and a woman
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Kim Janey, president of Boston's City Council, is set to take over as acting mayor of the city when
Martin J. Walsh is confirmed as the nation’s next labor secretary.
Janey would be Boston's first Black woman as mayor. Only white men have
held the city's highest political office since the mayoralty was
established in 1822.
Janey, a 55-year-old former education advocate, is in her second term on
the City Council and comes from a large and well-known Roxbury family.
“It is surreal,” she said of becoming mayor, during a recent walk around
Roxbury. “Particularly when I think of my own background growing up.
Just seeing how far our city has come. It’s amazing.”
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