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More than a week after a powerful storm tore through Northwest Indiana, thousands of Gary residents remain without electricity. Northern Indiana Public Service Company announced that power will be fully restored by Tuesday. But for residents who could spend nearly two weeks without power, trying to survive the aftermath feels like a crisis that refuses to end. Gary Mayor Eddie Melton says his constituents deserve better information and is demanding that NIPSCO provide specific and accurate details regarding the outage.

For five years, Atlanta has been the home of Earn Your Leisure's Invest Fest—but that partnership may be on the rocks. After co-founders Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings accused the city of providing little to no support over the years, Mayor Andre Dickens is breaking his silence on the diss and the threat of the festival packing its bags.

Before Zohran Kwame Mamdani stepped into New York City Hall to become the city's youngest mayor in over 40 years, his namesake, Kwame Nkrumah, was actively dismantling British colonial rule in Ghana in the 1950s. The Ghanaian revolutionary spent a decade in the United States and the United Kingdom working alongside political icons like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey to host anti-colonial summits before becoming Ghana's first president.

Under the soaring ceiling of the Governor's Room, the city's youngest mayor in more than a century and its first Democratic Socialist responded to questions on issues important to African Americans. The 34-year-old was characteristically charming but deftly evasive. He discussed his African origins and why his parents gave him the middle name Kwame. Born in Uganda, he moved to South Africa at five and to the United States at seven. He addressed the shrinking Black population, gentrification of historically Black neighborhoods, school segregation, reparations, and his relationship with Donald Trump. His consistent theme was that his economic agenda focused on childcare, transportation, housing, and affordability was fundamental to improving New Yorkers' lives.

"Seven prosecutors have resigned after the Department of Justice ordered the dismissal of corruption and fraud charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. One prosecutor, Hagen Scotten, called the decision "dismissal-with-leverage", criticizing the use of prosecutorial power to influence elected officials."