EMPOWERED

EMPOWERED WERE WE IN 1973 A friend has complimented my Howard University Class of 1973, to which the late great Maryland Congressman, Elijah Cummings, belonged as being “empowered.” I could not agree more! We were “Empowered” by the times in which we attended Howard. We were empowered by our powerful Bison predecessors who taught us our Bison protest history. We were empowered by President James E. Cheek and staff, who loved us as their own, whom we loved as our own. We were empowered by our families and empowered by God to be all that we could be, fearlessly , confidently, in our class of 1973! Elijah has entered the herd of vaunted Bison—too numerous to name—dating back to 1867 and General Oliver Otis Howard, Freedmen’s Bureau Director, our namesake-Founder from Maine. I am honored to have known Elijah Cummings of Baltimore , Maryland, so well in our 4-year adventures-filled sojourn upon the yard, including those with our incredibly beautiful intellectual Bison sisters who who were intimately involved in everything that we did, as coadjutors, joint heirs to Bison legacy. I am grateful that I, Larry Delano Coleman, Elijah Eugene Cummings; Geoffrey Simmons, Raymond Johnson, Ezekiel Mobley, Ronald D. Hayes’, had an amenability to comradeship in work, play, planning, protest, manhood! And that we all became attorneys at law! I praise God for my matriculation at Howard ,1969-1976; for the ability to be of service , to be loved and to love!