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May 24, 2009

She's Got Game, Susan Rice in Vogue

" It is a cold, rainy night in mid-April, and hundreds of people have packed a ballroom at the Millennium U.N. Plaza Hotel in New York to meet the new United States ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice. "continue reading full interview here.

Susan Elizabeth Rice (born on November 17, 1964) is an American foreign policy advisor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during President Bill Clinton's second term. Rice is the United States' third woman ambassador to the UN. Jeane Kirkpatrick and Madeleine Albright were first and second. She is also the first African-American woman to hold the position and the third African-American person to do so (after Andrew Young and Donald McHenry). continue reading here.


2 comments:

Beauty Is Diverse said...

"Her father always told her to "never use race as an excuse or advantage". Her father, Emmett J. Rice.

Cee said...

"never use race as an excuse or advantage" I totally agree, too many times Africans use their race to play victim. IT's high time we start taking responsibility for our actions both good and bad. Let us do more not because we are black but despite being black

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