Nick Mosby took the reins of the City Council today, delivering a speech that worked its way through a century of unsavory Baltimore history – racial segregation, redlining, middle-class flight and highway destruction of neighborhoods – before pledging strong leadership to lead the city to better days.

“The conditions endured were the direct results of policies shaped by bigotry and systemic platforms of white supremacy,” he said, in remarks after he was sworn in as City Council president by Mayor Brandon Scott.

“It’s going to take evidence-based solutions and a sense of optimism that will allow us as a legislative body to address some of the most pressing systemic and fundamental problems of our time,” he continued.

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