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Voters in Brockton made history on Tuesday night, electing the city’s first Black mayor to lead the majority-minority city.

Moises Rodrigues had declared victory over Jean Bradley Derenoncourt, GBH News reported . Both are at-large members of the City Council. With his apparent victory on Tuesday, Rodrigues will serve for two years.

Rodrigues, who has roots in Cape Verde, and Derenoncourt, who came to Brockton from Haiti after that nation’s earthquake in 2010, pledged to be mayors for all city residents, according to the local Enterprise newspaper .

Both emerged from September’s preliminary election as the top vote-getters.

“There is no such thing as Cape Verdeans here. There’s only one community and that community is the city o

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