{"id":77,"date":"2018-08-26T01:33:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T01:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=77"},"modified":"2018-09-12T01:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:39:43","slug":"brownsville-assemblywoman-latrice-walker-featured-on-the-2018-albany-40-under-40-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Brownsville Assemblywoman Latrice Walker Featured on the 2018 Albany 40 Under 40 List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Celeste Sloman)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cityandstateny.com\/articles\/power-list\/40-under-40\/2018-albany-40-under-40-continued.html\"><em>Courtesy City and State<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brownsville&#8217;s Assemblywoman, Latrice Walker grew up in NYCHA\u2019s Prospect Plaza Houses, which were torn down as part of a plan to build new housing in its place. \u201cThey came to everyone and gave them this promise of returning to this new community that was going to be built up with townhouses \u2026 and everything was going to be beautiful and brand new,\u201d Walker recalls. But the new development was never built, leaving Walker\u2019s mother devastated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom was forced to sign these documents. She had an eighth-grade education, no formal high school diploma or college, (and) was expected to read this legal document,\u201d Walker says. \u201cI remember her saying to me, I never want to see this happen again to any other families, and I should make sure to go to law school to prevent this,\u201d Walker says.<\/p>\n<p>Read Full 40 Under 40 List on <a href=\"https:\/\/cityandstateny.com\/articles\/power-list\/40-under-40\/2018-albany-40-under-40-continued.html\">City and State<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Celeste Sloman) Courtesy City and State Brownsville&#8217;s Assemblywoman, Latrice Walker grew up in NYCHA\u2019s Prospect Plaza Houses, which were torn down as part of a plan to build new housing in its place. \u201cThey came to everyone and gave them this promise of returning to this new community that was going to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}