Following a year of racial protests over police killings of Black Americans, both in the Bay Area and across the country, San Francisco's top two political leaders will be African Americans born and raised in the city.
Friday the Board of Supervisors is set to elect District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton to be its next president, the first Black man to serve in the role.
He will succeed former District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee, who was termed off the board after eights years in office and served as president of the 11-member body the last two years.
Leading up to today's inaugural meeting of the newly seated board there was speculation that District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin could once again serve as board president.