Rita Joseph will always stand up for our communities. Council Member Rita Joseph is an educator, activist, and mother serving the residents of District 40 in Brooklyn. Rita is a staunch advocate for public education, clean and safe streets, climate change, and more. ...
In the meantime, Ramirez-Dean had continued to participate, remotely, in the city council meetings. Victorville city staff had mailed or delivered the agendas and staff reports to her at the Twentynine Palms home where she was staying. Over time, however, the two Republican members of the city...
He parlayed his popularity on the Radio and in Baltimore’s African-American community into politics in 1978 when he ran for Baltimore City Council. There he became a vocal critic of Mayor William Donald Schaefer whom he accused of ignoring poor neighborhoods. Eventually Mfume learned the three-p...
He attended theYalta Conferenceto discuss post-war Europe with Churchill and Joseph Stalin. He then returned to the United States and the sanctuary ofWarm Springs, Georgia. On the afternoon of April 12, 1945, Roosevelt suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage and died. [Ibid] Franklin Delano Roose...