GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A longtime Greensboro council member who also was the first Black mayor of North Carolina’s third largest city has died. Yvonne Johnson, who was the mayor pro tempore on the current city council, died Wednesday at age 82, Mayor Nancy Vaughan announced in a statement. “Our city lost one of its champions,” Vaughan said. A cause of death wasn’t provided, but Vaughan had said Tuesday that Johnson was absent from the council meeting that evening because of illness, the News & Record of Greensboro reported. Johnson spent nearly 30 years on the council — first from 1993 to 2009, of which the last two years she served as mayor following a 2007 election victory. She lost her m
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