Michael Tubbs lived in Stockton as the son to a single mother and a prisoner father.
Tubbs was 31 years old and felt that he had to choose between death or prison in America if he wanted to live as a Black American man. He wrote this in his memoir “The Deeper The Roots.”
Tubbs escaped a grim future by being accepted at Stanford University. Following his graduation, he was elected to the Stockton City Council. When he became Stockton’s first Black mayor in 2017, and the youngest American mayor at 26, he blew away all expectations. Learn more about Personal […]
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