Chicago Makes Herstory: First African-American Woman and Gay Chicago Mayor Wins in Landslide

Chicago voters made history Tuesday when Lori Lightfoot won a landslide victory as both the city's first African-American woman mayor and openly gay mayor. This comes after a February runoff election that pitted her against Toni Preckwinkle, a former alderperson who is president of the Cook County Board. While Preckwinkle had been viewed as a highly formidable candidate, Lightfoot is a political outsider who has never held elected office. We are joined by Barbara Ransby, professor of African American studies, gender and women's studies and history at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her article for The Nation is headlined "The Rising Black Left Movement Behind Chicago's Historic Elections."