Meena also felt empowered by watching the other successful women in her family. One of my family members says, I eat no for breakfast, the mother of two explains. People are going to tell you no. People are going to tell you that something is impossible. If we listen to them, that becomes true. It s sort of a self-fulfilling thing where they can then further point to, See, we never had a female Vice President, that can t be done. Our country is not ready for that.
Meena continues: If you are not ambitious, if you do not believe in something bigger than what has been or what we re able to see, then not only is that not claiming your ambition, it perpetuates these systems that allow people to hold us back.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in on the West front of US Capitol building
US President-elect Joe Biden and his deputy Kamala Harris will be sworn in as the 46th President and 49th Vice-President of the United States today, January 20. Ms Harris will make history as America s first woman, first Black and first person with south Asian roots to take the office of the Vice President.
Joe Biden, 78, will take the oath on his 127-year-old family Bible, which will be held by his wife, Dr Jill Biden, news agency PTI reported.
The Inauguration will take place amid a deadly coronavirus pandemic that has infected over 2.4 crores Americans and killed 3.9 lakh patients so far. The ceremony comes days after an unprecedented storming of the US Capitol building, which is the seat of the US Congress, by pro-Trump supporters who took over the building, leading to the evacuation and lockdown of the Capitol and five deaths.
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San Francisco– Robert Dorsey, an San Francisco Bay Area-based chef who is catering the dinner on President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ Inauguration Day, has incorporated the latter’s favorite dish as part of the entree.
Dorsey is serving Harris’ favourite dish, the seafood gumbo, which is a soup that primarily consists a strongly-flavoured stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener, along with celery, bell peppers and onions.
Gumbo is the official state cuisine of Louisiana.
According to the chef, he and the Vice President-elect attended the Thousand Oaks Elementary school in Berkeley and had the same first grade teacher, Frances Wilson, ABC7 News reported on Sunday.