Caribbean Corner

Watching U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke excel, adapt brilliantly, and make significant strides in the United States political arena is overwhelming. This is genuinely an ascension for her career. As a young college student at the age of 23 or 24, somewhere there, she was one of the many people volunteering with the campaign for her mother, former New York City Council Member Dr. Una Clarke. Yvette later became a New York City Council Member, representing Brooklyn's 40th City Council District. Since then, her upward trend in New York City politics, particularly in Brooklyn, has not stopped. Clarke has played a safe and steady game as if groomed for what was to come. Her modus operandi, her mother, Una Clarke, has grounded her through all her positions. Dr. Clarke also campaigned for her daughter, "Just remember one word…Clarke," she said as she campaigned for her daughter, the first time Yvette ran for Congress. Yvette Clarke has now become the leader of the Congressional...