New Orleans Prepares to Elect its First Black Female Mayor

Watch the October 19th broadcast of Prime News

Since we’ve discussed the topic of places affected hurricane natural disaster, New Orleans is preparing to elect its first black female mayor. The candidates for mayor are City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell and former Municipal Court Judge Desiree Charbonnet. In the most recent Saturday’s election, Cantrell garnered 39 percent of the vote to Charbonnet’s 30 percent, leaving them both to duke it out for the final election – which will be on November 18th.

 I wonder if this has ever happened before – two candidates of a racial minority running against one another in a major city for a major office. I find it all to be super exciting. According to a report by Essence Magazine, Cantrell is a community organizer and Charbonnet comes from a political family with deep roots in New Orleans. Listen, this sounds like some good TV.  I wanna watch these debates. I wanna see their beauticians do a “hair battle”…their MUA’s do a “face off.  Listen, this is about to be everything.  Everything.