The lie-in-state ceremony will happen on Thursday at Hartford City Hall.

Funeral services for former Hartford mayor Thirman Milner, who died Nov. 29 at age 91, will be held Firday. Milner will also ...

The Connecticut NAACP says that former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner has died HARTFORD, Conn. -- Former Hartford Mayor ...

The first Black mayor of New England, Thirman L. Milner, who died at age 91, will lie in state at the Hartford City Hall. The lie in state ceremony will begin at 9 ...

He grudgingly transitioned from civil rights to politics and became the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England.

Virginia Monteiro, first vice president of the Connecticut State Conference of the NAACP and its Greater Hartford branch, is Milner’s stepdaughter. She remembers the man she called “Pops” as a ...

Former Hartford Mayor Thirman L. Milner will lie in state at City Hall on Thursday, the first former leader of the city to receive such an honor. Milner, who died in November at the age of 91, became ...

Former Hartford mayor Thirman Milner, known for becoming the first Black mayor in all of New England, has died at the age of ...

Gov. Ned Lamont called the former Hartford mayor, who served in the role from 1981 to 1987, "a civil rights icon." ...

The first Black mayor of New England, Thirman L. Milner, has died at age 91, according to the Connecticut NAACP. The ...

Bysiewicz said, “Connecticut mourns the loss of a trailblazing civil rights activist and community leader who became the first Black mayor of Hartford and in New England.