Jamaican Marcia Ranglin-Vassell Elected to Rhode Island State Assembly

In an election upset, Jamaican Marcia Ranglin-Vassell defeated John DeSimone, the majority leader of the Rhode Island State Assembly, in 2016 to become a new member of that legislative body. Upon hearing that she had been described as “some woman from Jamaica” during the Democratic Party primary, she wrote a poem in her journal stating […]