Memphis Mayor Paul Young Launches Black Mayors’ Coalition on Crime

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — Memphis Mayor Paul Young, in partnership with the African American Mayors Association (AAMA), announced the launch of the Black Mayors’ Coalition on Crime (BMCC), an initiative to harness the collective power of black mayors across the nation to fight crime. The inaugural meeting will take place in Memphis on March 27-28 and will host 21 mayors and their proxies from Washington D.C., IN, TN, MO, MS, LA, AR, GA, AZ, CA, and NC. Young has received support from big-city mayors, including Mayor Eric Adams from New York City and Mayor Karen Bass from Los Angeles. “For the first time in history, we have an unprecedented number of black mayors in some of our biggest cities: Mayor Adams in& New York City, Mayor Bass in& Los Angeles, and Mayor Johnson in& Chicago, to name a few,” said Young, “not to mention hundreds of others, like myself who represent millions of Americans in small-to-medium and large-sized cities across the country. Many of these leaders come from the communities most affected by crime, so they have a unique perspective on solving it.” “Across our great and diverse country, there’s one thing that every city has in common: public...