Jaylen Smith has been elected as mayor of Arkansas and residents are pinning their hopes on him to turn their fortunes around.
The best students at Earle High School often left for college because their hometown had nothing to offer them.
But, Jaylen Smith decided to stay as soon as he graduated high school and solve the problems affecting this small city.
He has become the youngest black mayor in the history of the United States of America at the age of 18.
