President Trump issued an executive order on Monday in which he listed dozens of "historically significant" Americans, including entertainers, founding fathers, religious figures, and others, to be featured in the new National Garden of American Heroes.
The coronavirus outbreak and mostly male Capitol rioters took away what should’ve been a historic celebration. But women, as always, will persist and party on.
This inauguration was supposed to be women’s chance to celebrate Petula Dvorak Farah Mack had her hotel and her flight all booked. It was going to be her first time in D.C. for an inauguration. And it was going to be personal. As a Black woman with Jamaican roots and a degree from a historically Black university, Mack, 47, felt a connection with Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris, an Indian-Jamaican woman who graduated from Howard University. And even though the novel coronavirus was going to constrict the celebration, Mack wanted “to be in the space and share the energy” when such sacred history was made.
Simone Boutet, a sitting Oak Park village trustee, has dropped out of the village presidential race for a second time. In a statement posted on Facebook Jan. 16, Boutet announced her decision to step down again by quoting William Shakespeare's Hamlet – "to thine own self be true."