Over the weekend cities around the world celebrated World Pride. Plenty of celebrities and politicians showed their support, attending parades and parties across the country. Bay Area native Senator Kamala Harris was in San Francisco—along with California governor Gavin Newsom and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi—for the occasion. And her outfit, an oversize denim…
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Last night (June 27), the second group of Democratic presidential candidates—including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg—took the stage to debate issues like immigration, health care, and climate change. But it was a tense exchange about race between Harris and Biden that has everyone talking, both online and off. Harris…
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When Senator Kamala Harris announced her presidential run on Martin Luther King Jr. Day—47 years to the week after Shirley Chisholm announced her historic run in 1972—I should have been thrilled. Harris is, after all, California’s first black woman and first Indian American to be elected to the Senate. Her decision to declare on a…
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Earlier this week Kamala Harris entered the 2020 presidential race. Her announcement was the expected conclusion to the will-she-won’t-she conversation that has surrounded her since she was elected to the Senate in 2016, announced her well-timed memoir in 2018, and raised millions to support progressive candidates in the midterm elections in November. As was true…
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If you want to ask Senator Kamala Harris whether she’s planning to run for president, keep in mind her favorite Cardi B track: “Be Careful.” The California Democrat will answer with polite exasperation because to discuss the race with her now, she believes, implies that political ambition motivates her work in the Senate. Instead it’s…
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The second day of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings went late into the night Wednesday, but Senator Kamala Harris (D–Calif.) was ready when it was her time to question President Trump’s nominee for the highest court in the land. As a former prosecutor (and former attorney general of California), Harris has perfected her…
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