Hellbilly
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Boston voters have elected City Councilor Michelle Wu as mayor, the city's first woman and person of color elected to the post.
Wu, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan broke a 199-year streak of white, male city leaders. She moved to the city from Chicago, attend Harvard University and Harvard Law School.
She defeated fellow Democratic City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George, a self-described first-generation Arab-Polish American who was born and raised in the city.
The contest between the two candidates marked a turning point in Boston politics, which has a history of fraught racial tensions and forced desegregation. It also reflected an increasingly diverse city where Black, Latino and Asian residents now make up more than half of the population and white groups continue to shrink.
This is great news for the city of Boston. After 199 years of white males we finally have a woman of color as mayor of Boston.
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Michelle Wu is Boston's first woman and first person of color elected mayor
Wu's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan. She defeated fellow Democratic City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George, a self-described first-generation Arab-Polish American.
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