Kamala Harris Makes History

“A vice president-elect stepped forward on Saturday, and, for the first time in American history, she was not a man,” the Washington Post reports.

“Kamala Devi Harris, a daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, is set to become the highest-ranking woman in the nation’s 244-year existence, as well as a high-profile representation of the country’s increasingly diverse composition.”

New York Times: “With her ascension to the vice presidency, Ms. Harris will become the first woman and first woman of color to hold that office, a milestone for a nation in upheaval, grappling with a damaging history of racial injustice exposed, yet again, in a divisive election. Ms. Harris, 56, embodies the future of a country that is growing more racially diverse, even if the person voters picked for the top of the ticket is a 77-year-old white man.”

“That she has risen higher in the country’s leadership than any woman ever has underscores the extraordinary arc of her political career.”