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Arkansas city elects 18-year-old as youngest Black mayor in US

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A real Feel Good story.  The issues were down-to-earth. The turn-out was impressive.  Let's hope he makes good on his promises now:

It is not even a year since Jaylen Smith was learning the power of the youth vote as a student government leader at his high school in Arkansas. Now the pioneering teenager is about to put his knowledge into practice as the youngest elected Black mayor anywhere in the US.

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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