Michael S. Bivens, former grandmaster of the Most Wishful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Connecticut, leads the masonic service at the funeral for Former Hartford Mayor Thirman L. Milner at the ...

Former Hartford mayor Thirman Milner, known for becoming the first Black mayor in all of New England, has died at the age of 91, officials confirmed to NBC Connecticut. Milner became the first African ...

Hundreds turned out to the Metropolitan AME Zion Church in Hartford on Friday morning to say farewell to Thirman Milner, the city’s first Black mayor and a widely respected pioneer in the civil rights ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The first Black mayor of New England, Thirman L. Milner, who died at age 91, is lying in state Thursday at the Hartford City Hall. Sworn in 1981, Thirman Milner was the first ...

The community came together on Thursday to honor former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner while he was lying in state at Hartford City Hall on Thursday. Milner was the first Black mayor in all of New ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Funeral services were held for former Hartford mayor Thirman L. Milner, who died at 91, on Friday. Milner was the first Black mayor in Hartford and New England. The day began ...

The city of Hartford and state Friday were mourning the death of former Mayor Thirman Milner, according to Mayor Arunan Arulampalam and others. Milner was “a trailblazer whose legacy as New England’s ...

Thirman L. Milner, whose election as Hartford’s mayor in 1981 made him the first popularly elected Black mayor of a New England city, an accomplishment tempered by a city charter that gave him scant ...

HARTFORD — Thirman Milner, Connecticut's first elected Black mayor, died this week, according to officials. Milner, 91, was the first Black mayor elected in all of New England when he became mayor of ...

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