Kamala Harris:Vice-President Elect of the United States

Electoral Victory

Election Highlights: Biden Winds Presidency, Calling for End of ‘Grim Era’ (NYT, 11/7/2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/07/us/biden-trump

Kamala Harris congratulates Joe Biden on their election victory (CNN, 11/7/2020)

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/11/07/kamala-harris-vice-president-elect-calls-joe-biden-2020-us-election-postelex-ldn-vpx.cnn

Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman elected vice president (CNBC, 11/7/2020)

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/07/kamala-harris-elected-vice-president.html

Read Kamala Harris’s Vice-President-Elect Acceptance Speech (NYT, 11/8/2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/article/watch-kamala-harris-speech-video-transcript.html

Who is Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris (AlJazera, 11/10/2020)

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2020/11/10/who-is-vice-president-elect-kamala-harris/

Kamala Harris’s rise, multicultural roots and challenges (Berkeley News, 11/10/2020)

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/10/kamala-harriss-rise-multicultural-roots-and-challenges/

Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff breaks gender stereotypes by putting her career ahead of his as second gentleman (USA Today, 11/12/2020)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/11/12/kamala-harris-husband-second-gentleman-doug-emhoff-breaks-stereotypes/6227849002/

Impact on Younger Generation

Douglass Emhoff to become America’s first second gentleman (CNN, 11/7/2020)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/07/politics/douglas-emhoff-kamala-harris-first-second-gentleman/index.html

People Are Going to Take My Daughters Seriously Too.’ For Women of Color Who See Themselves in Kamala Harris, Her Historic Win is Personal (Time, 11/10/2020)

https://time.com/5910084/kamala-harris-historic-win-women/

‘She’ll Look Like a Boss’: Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris Inspires Young Girls (NPR, 11/12/2020)

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/12/934158680/shell-look-like-a-boss-vice-president-elect-kamala-harris-inspires-young-girls

Padma Lakshmi: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Moved Me to Tears (NYT, 11/13/2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/opinion/padma-lakshmi-kamala-harris.html

Brown girl, Brown girl’: Renditions of poem celebrating Kamala Harris becoming US VP-elect go viral (The Indian Express, 11/14/2020)

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/brown-girl-brown-girl-multiple-renditions-of-poem-celebrating-kamala-harris-becoming-vice-president-elect-go-viral/

Impact on the Broader Community

5 Faith Facts about VP-elect Kamala Harris, a Black Baptist with a Hindu family (Religion News Service, 11/7/2020)

https://religionnews.com/2020/11/07/5-faith-facts-about-vp-elect-kamala-harris-a-black-baptist-with-a-hindu-family/

Linsey Davis, Donna Brazile among many describing the magnitude of Kamala Harris as vice-president-elect (Boston.com, 11/7/2020)

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2020/11/07/video-linsey-davis-kamala-harris

‘They won’t forget us,’ Detroiters reflect on Kamala Harris as first Black woman VP-elect (Detroit Free Press, 11//08/2020)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/11/08/kamala-harris-vp-elect-detroiters-react/6204236002/

Local community leaders react to VP Elect Kamala Harris (WHSV 3, 11/11/2020)

https://www.whsv.com/2020/11/12/local-community-leaders-react-to-vp-elect-kamala-harris/

Kamala Harris is the first VP-Elect from a Black sorority and HBCU (13 Action News, 11/12/2020)

https://www.13abc.com/2020/11/12/kamala-harris-is-the-first-vp-elect-from-black-sorority-and-hbcu/

Tears and inspiration: Naperville’s Indian community reacts to Kamala Harris’ rise to VP-Elect (Chicago Tribune, 11/13/2020)

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-indian-community-reaction-harris-vp-st-1113-20201113-nrz64ynidza6vpasaftfl6hcwy-story.html

5 Howard University women on Kampala Harris’ historic election and the impact of HBCUs (CNBC, 11/13/2020)

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/13/5-howard-university-women-on-kamala-harris-historic-election.html

Little India Community Responds to VP Elect Kamala Harris Victory (Spectrum News 1, 11/13/2020)

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/news/2020/11/13/little-india-community-responds-to-vp-elect-kamala-harris-victory