{"id":115942,"date":"2023-07-21T02:39:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115942"},"modified":"2023-07-21T02:39:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T02:39:11","slug":"black-man-elected-mayor-in-al-not-allowed-to-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115942","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Black Man Elected Mayor [in AL] Not Allowed to Serve&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2023\/07\/19\/black-man-elected-mayor-not-allowed-to-serve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Wire<\/a>: \u201cThere\u2019s a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town\u2019s first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalbnews.org\/newbern-alabama-black-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capital B<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing town officials of conspiring to deny his civil rights and his position because of his race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: \u201cThere\u2019s a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town\u2019s first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall,\u201d\u00a0Capital B\u00a0reports. \u201cAfter years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115943,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115942\/revisions\/115943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}