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(CNN) Sen. Kamala Harris broke barriers as America's first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect. But after her exit in January to join the Biden administration, there will be no Black women in the Senate. Harris's departure left lawmakers and advocates urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to choose a Black woman to replace her due to a lack of diversity in the chamber. And while his appointment on Tuesday of Secretary of State Alex Padilla as California's first Latino senator was historic, it comes with the reality that the 117th Congress will have no Black women in the upper chamber.
Al Drago/Getty Images The debate between US Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris is Wednesday night. If elected, Harris would be the first woman and the first woman of color to serve as vice president. Because she represents multiple firsts, there's meaningful pressure on Harris to succeed — and there's been heightened scrutiny of her performance during the campaign. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. An earlier version of this story ran in the Gender at Work newsletter.
Washington, Aug 19 (EFE) .- It was 1986 and 38 black women dreamed of following in the footsteps of the founders of their university sorority: pioneering women capable of changing their reality. Today one of them aspires to be the first vice president of African American and Asian descent in US history. Her name is Kamala Harris and at 55 she has become the electoral duo of the virtual Democratic candidate for the Presidency, Joe Biden, but also the woman who can write a new page for the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), a sorority of African American students founded in 1908 at Howard University in Washington DC, one Harris was a part of.FOOTAGE OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY.SOUNDBITES OF LORRI SADDLER, HARRIS' COLLEAGUE AT THE SORORITY.
Andrew Harnik/Pool via Reuters A striking photo captured Barack Obama joyfully greeting VP Kamala Harris. The two are the only Black Americans elected to the White House in US history. Reuters photojournalist Jonathan Ernst captured a striking photo of former President Barack Obama passing on the torch of national office to newly sworn-in Vice President Kamala Harris. Like Obama 12 years ago today, Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage, made history when she was sworn in as the first female, Black, and Asian vice president.
New York City, Nov 8 (EFE/EPA).- Thousands of people took to the streets of Oakland, the hometown of Kamala Harris, to celebrate the victory of the Biden-Harris campaign over the incumbent president Donald Trump. (Camera: JOHN MABANGLO).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE GATHER TO CELEBRATE THE VICTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIEDNTIAL CANDIDATE JOE BIDEN AND THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE KAMALA HARRIS ON THE STREETS OF OAKLAND, CARLIFORNIA, US.
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