'Amazing feeling.' 1st Somali mayor in U.S. shares her vision
PORTLAND, Maine — Deqa Dhalac is the first Somali immigrant to become the mayor of a U.S. city, but she describes her rise in local politics as very old fashioned.
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Maine City Inaugurates First Muslim Mayor
Deqa Dhalac was scheduled to become mayor of the state’s fourth-largest city on Monday
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A Maine city that's 90% White now has a Somali mayor
Deqa Dhalac saw it in their faces when she started campaigning.
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A Maine city that's 90 per cent white now has a Somali mayor
On Monday, Deqa Dhalac became the first Black mayor of the small Maine city of South Portland. And she's believed to be the first Somali American mayor in the United States.
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A Maine city that's 90% white now has a Somali mayor
"People will always have some kind of reservation ... but will get to know you, listen to you and see who you are through that," she says.
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