Darlene Carmon McKnight, one of four children born to David and India Northington Carmon entered into this world on February 19, 1942 in Salem, New Jersey. She peacefully transitioned into eternity on March 14, 2022 at her residence. She was formally educated in the Salem City School District. During Darlene’s lifetime she was employed at: Princeton Hospital as a lab tech, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Greg Simms, New Approach Reading Method, and Trenton Public Schools as a parent liaison professional. Darlene Carmon McKnight was a well-loved and respected activist of the City of Trenton for 55 years. Darlene did extensive work in the community with numerous agencies and advocacy groups to make Trenton a safer place for all adults and their children. When her daughter, Shelly, entered Kindergarten she became a parent volunteer, school representative, and a parent organizer always advocating for improvement in conditions impacting the Trenton children. By the time her son, Louis, started school she was well established as an “Advocate”. She fought to have advocacy training for parents/grandparents as partners to improve the educational and social success of their children in school. She had a love for children that was displayed in the classroom during her employment with Trenton Publics Schools (16 years). Darlene loved to travel – she traveled to various Conventions around the world to keep abreast of educational trends. She attended the 100th Anniversary Hague Appeal for Peace in the Netherlands 1999, traveled extensively to Africa, attended the March on Washington in August 1963 and attended various educational/social policy seminars. Darlene understood the power in numbers, therefore she worked and support some other powerful groups working in the City and surrounding communities: her church, Union Baptist, pastor Rev. Simeon Spencer, Fathers and Men United for a Better Trenton, F.A.S.T.(Family and Schools Together Work for Children), Lifeline Emergency Shelter and Trenton Area Soup Kitchen with Alice Parker for 25 Years, Radio Stations WIMG 1300AM and WZBN Channel 25 Mercer County, The Institute of Wonderful Women Working for Empowerment as Chairperson, Co-founder of Juneteenth LOC starting in 2001 educating the Trenton Community, National Coalition Peace Action (Princeton) where she served as chairperson and the NAACP. She received many awards/honors from those in the community who respected and admired her as a “trailblazer”: S.E.E.D 2020 1st Harriet Tubman Award, Channel 6 WPVI “Unsung Hero Award”, The Times of Trenton “Unsung Hero Award”, Top Ladies of Distinction recognition “advocacy for children and families May 15, 2016, National Association of Colored People Education Service Award 2018, honored by Father and Men United for a Better Trenton, Capital City Area Black Caucus 2019, 5th Black Image Award 2014 and Trenton City “In Honor of the Elders ”Darlene C. McKnight Community Activist” featured on a Billboard in Trenton for all to see. Darlene was a loving mother, true friend to many with an Aura of an Angel and a tongue like lightning. Some of the daily thoughts that kept her grounded were found in: “If I Can Help Somebody”, Bible Verse Habakkuk 3:19 and the poem “Footprints in the Sand”. Darlene was predeceased by her parents, David and India Carmon, a brother John Miller, a sister Marjorie Graves and an uncle, Pete Northington. She leaves to cherish her Legacy: two sons, Clive Louis McKnight, Jr. (Lorraine) and Bruce Clark, Sr. both of Trenton NJ; two daughters, Shelly McKnight of Trenton, NJ and Tracy McKnight of Harlem, New York; a sister, Verna Carmon of Salem, New Jersey; ex-husband Clive McKnight Sr. of Trenton, NJ; five grandchildren, Jasmine McKnight, Nathaniel McKnight, Bruce Clark Jr, Briana Coleman and Ziara Johnson; four great-grandchildren, Shani McKnight, India Brooklyn McKnight, Amari Bali McKnight and Nathaniel McKnight Jr; cousin, Joseph Northington; great aunt, Annie Northington both of Brooklyn, NY; special nieces, Karen Miller of Boston, MA and Denise Graves of Indianapolis, IN; special nephews, John Miller of North Carolina and Lavar Carmon of Virginia Beach, VA; great niece, Tamu Carmon of Minnesota; many other nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.