Omaha's first Black mayor will have the street he grew up on renamed to John W. Ewing Jr. Street in his honor.

Mayor-elect John Ewing Jr. says most of Jean Stothert's staff will stay on board amid transition. Story by McKenzy Parsons and Pete Cuddihy • 44m.

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John Ewing Jr. Becomes Omaha, Nebraska’s 1st Black Mayor After A Year Of Racial Limbo History was made after Ewing, the Douglas County Treasurer, beat Stothert, who served for 12 years, in a ...

Democrat John Ewing Jr. defeated incumbent Republican Jean Stothert in the Omaha mayoral race Tuesday, becoming the first black mayor of the most populous city in the Cornhusker State.

Douglas County Treasurer John Ewing, a Democrat, defeated incumbent Republican Jean Stothert in Omaha's mayoral race to become the city's first Black mayor.