Rafael Suarez, Jr. (born March 5, 1957), known as Ray Suarez, is an American broadcast journalist and host of Inside Story on Al Jazeera America. Suarez joined the PBS NewsHour in 1999 and was a senior correspondent for the evening news program on the PBS television network until 2013. He is also host of the international news and analysis public radio program America Abroad from Public Radio International. He was the host of the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation from 1993-1999. In his more than 30-year career in the news business, he has also worked as a radio reporter in London and Rome, as a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, and as a reporter for the NBC-owned station WMAQ-TV in Chicago.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Suarez attended public schools in the borough from kindergarten through 12th grade, graduating in 1974 from John Dewey High School. In 1975, he earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Brooklyn Council. In 2009, Suarez was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award by the NCAC. He earned a BA in African History from New York University and an MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and three children, Rafael, Eva, and Isabel. Suarez is active locally and nationally in the Episcopal Church.
Regner E. (“Ray”) Suárez (born 26 October 1946) Is alderman of the 31st Ward of the City of Chicago; he was first elected in 1991. He was elected out of his seat on the city council in April of 2015 and left office may of 2015. Milly Santiago was his successor.
Suárez was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and later enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He is a Vietnam Veteran. He and his wife, Marta, live in the Cragin neighborhood.
Suárez held various city jobs before becoming alderman. He worked for Streets and Sanitation, in the mayor’s office as an Administrative Assistant working with Development Action Grants, and Assistant Commissioner of Department of Street and Sanitation.
In 1989, he was appointed to the Illinois Job Training Coordinating Council, where he advised the governor how to spend the budget for job-training.
Suárez was elected alderman in 1991. He was not re elected for his sixth term in April of 2915. Milly Santiago defeated him.
Sittin here in this chair
Waitin on you
aaahhh baby to see things my way
But not a word do you say
You won't even look my way, yeah
Girl I'm spendin my dimes
Wastin my time
Talkin til I'm black and blue
Uh can't you see
I wanna get next to you
Dreams of you when I go sailing by
When ever your eyes meet mine
Your so fine
And girl you make me feel so insecure
You're so beautiful and pure
Why must you be unkind
And tell me I'm not your kind
Blowin my mind
Girl my, my money is low and I know
That I can't take you to the fancy places
You might wanna go
Still I wanna get next to you
I wanna get next to you
Baby yeah
aah aah aah aah aah
aaahh yeah
Girl you can bend me, shape me, make me
What ever it takes to please you
I'm willing to do
cause you're my dream come true
And I wanna get next to you
Baby yeah
I wanna get next to you
I wanna make you mine for all of time
(I wanna get next to you)
I promise I'll never make you blue
I wanna get next to you
So let love begin between me and you
(I wanna get next to you)
Girl I'm in love with you