{"id":11270,"date":"2011-11-10T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11270"},"modified":"2011-11-10T14:53:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:53:46","slug":"gary-celebrates-indianas-first-black-female-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11270","title":{"rendered":"Gary Celebrates Indiana&#8217;s First Black Female Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARY &#8211; <strong>Karen Freeman-Wilson<\/strong> was elected the first Black female mayor in Indiana on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to make history,&#8221; the Gary attorney said just before the celebration began at the Genesis Convention Center in Gary for hundreds of her supporters.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Freeman-Wilson<\/strong>, a Gary native, received a law degree in 1985 from Harvard University. Ebony magazine named her one of the country&#8217;s 50 leaders of the future for the Black community a year after then-<strong>Gov. Evan Bayh<\/strong> named her director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, the first of many of her public responsibilities involving social and racial equality.<\/p>\n<p>She became Gary city judge in 1994 and Indiana attorney general in 2000. She ran unsuccessfully for Gary mayor in 2003 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>She now must confront a city government hobbled by high tax rates, declining tax revenues and the need to provide services to a population in which a significant number of people are below the poverty line and unemployed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GARY &#8211; Karen Freeman-Wilson was elected the first Black female mayor in Indiana on Tuesday night. &#8220;It&#8217;s great to make history,&#8221; the Gary attorney said just before the celebration began at the Genesis Convention Center in Gary for hundreds of her supporters. Freeman-Wilson, a Gary native, received a law degree in 1985 from Harvard University. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}