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.
I guess we are such as Americans. We are always trying to be number one. We always try to not make mistakes, refuse to fail, but I know for a fact, through my own failures, that failing isn't the worst thing. Not trying, being afraid to try because you're going to fail, is worse than anything tha...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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