Axios - Howard University in Washington, D.C. — one of the nation's best-known historically Black colleges — has been central to Vice President Kamala Harris' origin story.... Howard has produced luminaries: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, whose legacy inspired Harris to attend Howard, and author Toni Morrison, among others...If Harris won the White House, she'd be the first graduate of a historically Black college to hold that office .MORE
MSNBC - In what counts as one of the bizarre attacks of this year’s presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, stands accused of wrongly characterizing herself as a “daughter of Oakland.” According to an investigative report in The New York Times, Harris was born in the adjacent Berkeley, California. . . .The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland in 1966 and organized a host of social services for low-income families such as legal aid, health clinics and free breakfast programs for kids. At least since then, Oakland has become synonymous with Black resistance, racial pride and self-reliance.
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