The sound and the fury have all but ebbed away and now it’s getting down to business unusual.
Washington D.C., like a leopard has changed its spots, resumed its normalcy bringing thousands to the boulevards to hurry along at day break to nowhere it seemed and returning somewhere in the evening.
At last, the much expected Inauguration Day has passed with its flamboyance and street closures and restrictions replaced by activities of everyday life, sighed one residents who said he was subjected to security searches multiple times.
It brings to a reminder that strength doesn’t come from what you can but from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.
The Trump administration needs to work hard in silence and let its success be its noise as the starting point of all achievement is desire.
In today’s world, a man’s direction will eventually determine his destiny.
Books on the legacy of former President Obama are flooding the literary world of the United States, the latest being the audacity by Jonathan Chair.
The book, which icons literary described as a must to be read, takes an expansive view of America’s 44th President, unpacking virtually every policy moment of Obama’s eight years.
The book argues that even in the face of constant intransigence from the right and left, number 44 leaves a legacy that places him among the country’s greatest leaders.
The other day, an American friend who graduated from Prince George’s Community College years back, took me to the campus just as the institution was reopening for the Semester.
It was an eye opener as the authorities said that more than 44,000 students come to the college each year.
Half are in the first generation of their families to go beyond high school and many work while taking one course a semester.
According to the College’s President Charlene Duke, people make it our mission to take you from where you are to where you want to be.
One of the success stories of the College is Reginald Betts. After serving a prison sentence, he enrolled in the college and won a scholarship to the University of Maryland and graduated from Yale Law School. He has published a question of freedom, a memoir of learning survivor and coming of age in prison.
By Rod Mac-Johnson
Monday January 23, 2017
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