Obama named ‘Person of the Year’ | BBC News
December 18, 2008 by The Gentleman
Filed under News
$100 bucks says he wins a Nobel prize before he’s done.
Time magazine has given its annual Person of the Year award to US President-elect Barack Obama.
Mr Obama was awarded the title “for having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour,” said the US-based magazine.
It said he showed “the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off”. Read more
It’s Still Not Enough…
September 3, 2008 by The Virtuoso
Filed under Education & Advancement
Today I wanted to take the opportunity to write about an observation that I’ve made throughout the past three weeks. A very close friend of mine of Jamaican decent had stopped by my parent’s house one lovely weekend. My father happened to be in town so we sat down and engaged in an intellectual conversation of Black America as we saw it presently. Read more