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Colorado Springs residents for first time elect Black mayor, Nigerian immigrant Yemi Mobolade

‘I want us to be Americans because what we have got is good. And we can make it better’

Yemi Mobolade, pictured during a May 16, 2023, election watch party in Colorado Springs, won the runoff election against City Councilman Wayne Williams, making him the first Black person Colorado Springs residents have elected mayor. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP)
Yemi Mobolade, pictured during a May 16, 2023, election watch party in Colorado Springs, won the runoff election against City Councilman Wayne Williams, making him the first Black person Colorado Springs residents have elected mayor. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP)
Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
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Colorado Springs voters have elected Yemi Mobolade — a 44-year-old Nigerian immigrant who moved to the city in 2010 and emerged as a business and church leader — to serve as the city's 42nd mayor in a runoff election by a double-digit margin.
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