Douglas Palmer served as Trenton, New Jersey's first African-American mayor from 1990 to 2010. From 2006 to 2008, he was president of the United States Conference of Mayors.
He was born in Trenton and attended Trenton public schools. He then graduated from the Bordentown Military Institute in Bordentown, New Jersey.
Douglas Palmer is a graduate of Virginia's private black college Hampton University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management in 1973.
A leader, a person in business, politics, or entrepreneurship, should know their market, who they work for, what their target is, and be real to themselves; not lie to themselves amongst anyone else. And so we went about the process of changing policing. In New Jersey, most cities have civil servi...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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