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Patrick Braxton became the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama, when he was elected in 2020, but since then he has fought with the previous administration to actually serve in office. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

NEWBERN, Ala. — There’s a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town’s first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall.

After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing town officials of conspiring to deny his civil rights and his position because of his race.

“When I first became mayor, [a white woman told me] the town was not ready for a Black mayor,” Braxton recalls.

The town is 85% Black, and 29% of Black people here live below the poverty line.

“What did she mean by the town wasn’t ready for a Black mayor? They, meaning white people?” Capital B asked.

“Yes. No change,” Braxton says.

Decades removed from a seemingly Jim Crow South, white people continue to thwart Black political progress by refusing to allow them to govern themselves or participate in the country’s democracy, several residents told Capital B. While litigation may take months or years to resolve, Braxton and community members are working to organize voter education, registration, and transportation ahead of the 2024 general election.

But the tension has been brewing for years.

Two years ago, Braxton says he was the only volunteer firefighter in his department to respond to a tree fire near a Black person’s home in the town of 275 people. As Braxton, 57, actively worked to put out the fire, he says, one of his white colleagues tried to take the keys to his fire truck to keep him from using it.

In another incident, Braxton, who was off duty at the time, overheard an emergency dispatch call for a Black woman experiencing a heart attack. He drove to the fire station to retrieve the automated external defibrillator, or AED machine, but the locks were changed, so he couldn’t get into the facility. He raced back to his house, grabbed his personal machine, and drove over to the house, but he didn’t make it in time to save her. Braxton wasn’t able to gain access to the building or equipment until the Hale County Emergency Management Agency director intervened, the lawsuit said.

“I have been on several house fires by myself,” Braxton says. “They hear the radio and wouldn’t come. I know they hear it because I called dispatch, and dispatch set the tone call three or four times for Newbern because we got a certain tone.”

This has become the new norm for Braxton ever since he became the first Black mayor of his hometown in 2020. For the past three years, he’s been fighting to serve and hold on to the title of mayor, first reported by Lee Hedgepeth, a freelance journalist based in Alabama.

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Incorporated in 1854, Newbern, Alabama, today has a population of 275 people — 85% of whom are Black. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

Not only has he been locked out of the town hall and fought fires alone, but he’s been followed by a drone and unable to retrieve the town’s mail and financial accounts, he says. Rather than concede, Haywood “Woody” Stokes III, the former white mayor, along with his council members, reappointed themselves to their positions after ordering a special election that no one knew about.

Braxton is suing them, the People’s Bank of Greensboro, and the postmaster at the U.S. Post Office.

For at least 60 years, there’s never been an election in the town. Instead, the mantle has been treated as a “hand me down” by the small percentage of white residents, according to several residents Capital B interviewed. After being the only one to submit qualifying paperwork and statement of economic interests, Braxton became the mayor.

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the "color wheel meme", an art meme showing a color wheel with (from the top left) red, orange, yellow, green, light blue/cyan, dark blue, purple, and pink in a color wheel. a character is drawn over each swatch of color. over the red swatch is Damian Wayne as Robin, in his Robin Son of Batman uniform with the red tunic, black cape with a hood and gold trim, and green boots and gloves. he has his domino mask in his hand and is sitting down. next is kendra saunders as hawkgirl, over the orange swatch. she has her hands up in fists, and the gold of her helmet and bracers blend into the orange of the background. next up is Cassandra, over the yellow swatch. She is in her batgirl uniform, and we are seeing her from a slight below angle and she has a hand on her hip and is smiling. the yellow of her logo and utilty belt match the yellow swatch. then there is barbara gordon as oracle. she is in her wheelchair, doing a wheelie and holding the hand rim with one hand, and she's wearing a grene tank top that matches the green swatch and has blue jeans and green tinted glasses. for the light blue swatch is jaime reyes as blue beetle. he is in motion like he's walking, and he's smiling. the blue of his armor matches the blue swatch. next, in the blue swatch is raven and the purple swatch is koriandr (starfire). they are interacting with each other. raven is wearing her blue dress and gloves, but not her cloak. kory is wearing a purple crop top with her red gem from NTT. they are leaning towards each other, kory is touching raven's face and raven is touching kory's hand, and they are looking into each other's eyes. finally is Talia al Ghul in the pink swatch. she is holding a crossbow and her hair is blowing in the wind. she is wearing a white tanktop, with a light pink corset-esque thing (it's like a tube around her waist), a darker pink vest and skirt, and dark pink gloves.ALT
next is a picture of only kendra (the same one as above). she is smiling slightly. her wings have silver upper feathers and gold lower feathers. all the rest of the image descriptions of this set give any more details that were not included for space in the first one, describing the whole pictureALT
talia, in her picture, looks slightly sad or wistful. she is also wearing a necklace with a black stone.ALT
barbara, while doing the wheelie, is brushing her hair back with one hand. her arms are very muscular.ALT
no additional information about Damian from the bigger pictureALT
jaime's eys are orange, standing out against the blue.ALT
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koriandr and raven are looking into each other's eyes. kory's hair is long and very curly, raven's is long and very straightALT

Color wheel meme (ID in alt Text)

Okeydokey, so I jumped on the bandwagon and did the color wheel meme!

These were just all characters I liked :P

Some of these did not need pose refs, but some did b/c the poses were hard.

Kendra Saunder's ref was from adorkastock (link) to get the foreshortening on the hands right.

Raven and Kory's pose was from adorastock again (link)

Babs was reffed from a picture of Tiphany Adams, a wheelchair using body builder, doing a wheelie.

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image: the same characters and positions as above, but each character is one solid color (though has shading). kory is all purple, talia all pink, damian all red, kendra all orange, cassandra all yellow, babs all green, and jaime all light blue and raven all dark blue.ALT

This is what the pic temporarily looked like when i had the layer that was gonna give each character a slight color 'tinge' set to normal instead of overlay :P I think it looked cool so I saved it.