article_snippet.sent: the Ferguson City Council, Missouri (CNN)
article_snippet.sent: Ella Jones and Wesley Bell -- were elected to the Ferguson City Council on Tuesday, meaning three of the six council members are black.
article_snippet.sent: Amid the rain, the Ferguson City Council opened its polls at 6 a.m. for municipal elections that traditionally have drawn very few out to vote.
article_snippet.sent: This was the first city election since white police Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown last August.
article_snippet.sent: Even though 70% of Ferguson's 21,000 people are black, five of the six current City Council members and the mayor are white.
article_snippet.sent: City Council was cited along with the Ferguson Police Department, which has three black officers, as a symbol of white power in a majority black city.
article_snippet.sent: When the rain let up for a few minutes, a stream of voters trickled into the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Ferguson to cast voters votes.
highlights_snippet.sent: Two more African-Americans have been elected to the Ferguson City Council .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Tuesday's vote is the first in the Ferguson City Council since the shooting death of Michael Brown .