{"id":66296,"date":"2025-05-22T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=66296"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:32:42","slug":"sheffield-welcomes-their-first-black-woman-wearing-a-hijab-lord-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/sheffield-welcomes-their-first-black-woman-wearing-a-hijab-lord-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield welcomes their \u201cfirst black woman wearing a hijab\u201d Lord Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sheffield has appointed its first black woman wearing a hijab as its 128th Right Worshipful Lord Mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councillor Safiya Saeed, made history, being inaugurated at Sheffield City Council\u2019s annual general meeting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: \u201cI stand before you today in great pride and joy, it is more than an honour, I am honoured to be the first black woman wearing a hijab to take this role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, this gives me the platform to grow and give back to my community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councillor Saeed\u2019s proud family travelled from Somaliland, her home country, to support the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My Mother became the Lord Mayor of Sheffield today\ud83c\udf89 Today marks history. <br>We are so proud of her\u2764\ufe0f<br><br>She\u2019s the reason why our family all serve the community, why we have that fire in our chest no matter how hard the world is. <br><br>I can\u2019t wait for this years exciting initiatives!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KPmDxpZ74m\">pic.twitter.com\/KPmDxpZ74m<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sheep\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd32\ud83c\udffe (@sowhatsgoodb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sowhatsgoodb\/status\/1924596353457356928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While being a councillor, she took on many roles, including Deputy Lord Mayor and Chair of the North East Local Area Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as being a single mother of five, she is also the founder of Reach up Youth, an initiative dedicated to providing social education and opportunities for young people, particularly those from ethnic minority backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councillor Saeed aims to make Sheffield a place where businesses, charities and locals can work together and grow to build a future of collaboration and prosperity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: \u201cI came to Sheffield in 1985, and this city has truly become my home \u2013 a place where I have always felt I belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want every voice, no matter how quiet, to feel heard in the heart of this city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Lord Mayor, Safiya Saeed, Sheffield City Council&#8217;s Annual General meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":66300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,50,16,82],"tags":[231,1889,38,141,131],"class_list":["post-66296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-top-stories","category-top-story","tag-community","tag-lord-mayor","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-city-council","tag-south-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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