- c/o Toni Foulkes
- 15th Ward Alderman Toni Foulkes poses with her parents. Foulkes, who’s campaigning to be alderman of the 16th Ward, posted this photo to a friend’s Instagram account in an attempt to clear up what she says has been confusion around her ethnicity.
While out knocking on doors recently in her campaign to be the new 16th Ward alderman, Toni Foulkes encountered an African-American woman who said Foulkes wouldn’t be getting her vote because she isn’t black.
At that time the 16th Ward seat was held by JoAnn Thompson. But she died unexpectedly just before election day in February.
United Working Families, a union-funded political organization backing Foulkes, has also accused Coleman of being a “slumlord” after a lawsuit surfaced indicating the city took steps to raze a vacant Englewood property with “dangerous and unsafe” conditions that Coleman and her father own.
