Antioch's mayor changed his name to honor his late Mexican foster parents after his mother gave birth to him in jail and raised him to be a bilingual, political leader.
(BCN) — Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe is now Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe. Hernandez-Thorpe said in a press release Thursday he was born in 1981 in prison to a mother addicted to heroin. He said he was two days old when he was placed in foster care and raised by Mexican immigrants in East Los Angeles. As a […]