SEPTEMBER 2024, Volume 70, Issue 54
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Kamala Harris, First Black Woman to Accept Democratic Nomination By: Ashleigh Fields A culmination of history and heroic feats were championed on Thursday, Aug. 22 in Chicago’s United Center as Kamala Harris arose to accept the Democratic nomination for president. Through her poignant speech she conveyed her uncommon journey to leadership through lessons instilled by her mother, Shymala Harris, an immigrant from India. “My mother was a brilliant, five-foot-tall brown woman with an accent. And as the eldest child, I saw how the world would sometimes treat her,” Haris told the crowd. “But my mother never lost her cool. She was tough, courageous, a trailblazer in the fight for women’s health.” The biomedical researcher raised two daughters as a single parent in Oakland, California. A city and state that would later propel Harris into a prominent political career. “She taught Maya and me a lesson that Michelle mentioned the other night. She taught us to never complain about injustice, but do something about it,” said Harris. As a prosecutor, attorney general and senator, Harris says the span of her entire career
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(Pictured: Vice President Kamala Harris. Photo courtesy of The White House)
has been focused on serving people. Former lies with kids a tax cut. And she’s running for presidents like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton president with real plans to lower costs even argued that Harris’ extensive resume makes more, protect Medicare and Social Security, continued on P4 her one of the most qualified candidates to seek the presidency. “As Vice President, she helped take on the drug companies to cap the cost of insulin, lower the cost of health care, and give fami-
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