Ferguson elects 2 black council members

Ferguson, Missouri, voters took their angst over a mid-2014 white police officer's shooting of a black teen to the polls and elected two black candidates to the six-member city council, five of whom are presently white.

Ferguson, the city where officer Darren Wilson shot and killed in self-defense 18-year-old Michael Brown – sparking nationwide rallies about police brutality and racism in the process – is 70 percent black. The vote was a clear message to the powers-who-be in the local government: We want a board that more closely mirrors the population in terms of ethnicity.

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Ella Jones won her Ward 1 election with just under 50 percent of the vote, becoming the first black woman to sit on the Ferguson City Council.

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"My job is to be that catalyst so we can put a new face on Ferguson," she said, CNN reported.

Wesley Bell, meanwhile, won with nearly 67 percent of the vote.