Brooklyn’s Own Mother Daughter Political Team
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by If you are an avid OurBKSocial reader, you know Brooklyn is a borough of many fantastic firsts and ground breaking experiences. Inspired by last weekend’s Essence Festival Mother Daughter Journey, we felt compelled to feature a Brooklyn family duo of our own.
Dr. Una Clarke and daughter Yvette Diane Clarke are a mother daughter team that has broken records both together and separately.
Their story begins in the historic parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, West Indies where Una Clarke was born. She migrated to the United States as a foreign student in 1958.
Dr. Clarke an educator by profession, was elected in 1991 to represent the newly created 40th Council District (covering Kensington, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Ditmas Park; parts of Crown Heights, Flatbush and East Flatbush). She is the first Caribbean-born woman to serve in the City Legislature. She successfully served for 10 years sponsoring more than 300 pieces of legislation.
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When the term limits laws restricting city office holders to two terms, forced Una Clarke out of the Council, daughter Yvette ran in 2001 and won. This daughter replaced her mother in office, which made the dynamic duo the first mother daughter succession in the history of the City Council. Yvette Clarke represented Central Brooklyn for five years as Council member. She has been called the “authentic voice of Brooklyn.”
The younger Clarke was born in Brooklyn and attended Edward R. Murrow High School and Oberlin College. She was elected to Congress in November of 2006. Rep. Yvette Clarke fills a seat once held by Shirley Chisholm, who was another pioneering Brooklynite of Caribbean ancestry.
Rep. Yvette Clarke works tirelessly representing the Ninth Congressional District of New York, which includes the communities of Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Gerritsen Beach, Madison, Midwood, Ocean Hill, Park Slope, Flatlands, Prospect Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Sheepshead Bay, and Windsor Terrace. Most recently in April, the Hon. Yvette Clarke traveled with President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One to Kingston, Jamaica for a town hall meeting.
Along with several other female elected officials of color representing the beautiful borough of Brooklyn, this mother and daughter political force is making significant herstory.
