Voters chose Wicomico’s first Black county executive, Ernie Davis, and two Black council members, Shanie Shields and Habacuc Petion. The ACLU said two Black candidates also won school board seats.
“It was a blessing,” Mary Ashanti, president emeritus of the Wicomico County NAACP, told The Baltimore Sun on Thursday. “When the election came around, I could see that we — the entire county — would be represented.”
Careful what you wish for