With less than a year before the 2024 Monroe Mayoral campaign, political thinkers in the Black community are gathering to field a candidate to challenge incumbent Mayor Friday Ellis.
Ellis, who won the election with only 15 percent of the black vote, ran on a platform of erasing the line that divides blacks and whites, Northside and Southside, but generally abandoned that theme as he turned his attention to developing downtown.
In 2021, a year after taking office, Mayor Ellis pledged $1 million a year for 25 years, to help promote the Southside Dream, then took…
