By Alisha Dixon
Baton Rouge Parish made history when the city elected its first black woman mayor, Sharon Weston Broome.
“Tonight Baton Rouge made a statement, a statement that we are a city of inclusion,” Sharon Weston Broome said.
Broome won 52 percent of the votes during the election.
“That we are a place of hope and optimism. A place where little boys and little girls of all walks of life know that they can grow up and lead a city no matter what their color or gender,” said Broome.
“Being unified is not only part of a vision for our future, it’s the backbone of the process that takes us there,” she said. “We will work for the next four years to make our city an example of how to heal and progress past the hurt that we have seen.”
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