Georgia Peat West, known as Mother Rose, died recently after losing her battle with cancer but it's how she lived her life and cared for others that's leaving lasting memories and a legacy of love.

It was a game of basketball. And it took place in the Rose Hill Gymnasium in The Bronx, New York. That game was the first played in what is now endearingly known as the historic Rose Hill Gymnasium.

Signup now for our FREE acclaimed racial justice newsletters. Since that first game, Rose Hill Gym, on Fordham’s campus in the Bronx, has been used as an athletic facility except for the 1943 ...