Harris will be the 1st nominee on a major presidential party ticket to graduate from a historically Black college or university. 'We’ve been such a back bone, and for her to be tapped it’s, like, someone is finally seeing us for the value that we bring.”
Paula Coates was driving home from work Tuesday when her dad called with news that Joe Biden had selected Sen. Kamala Harris of California to be the vice-presidential nominee for the Democratic party.“I literally started screaming on the phone,” said Coates, a pediatric dentist living in Arlington, Va. “And then tears started welling up.
In recent history, presidents and vice presidents have largely graduate from a small group of colleges Though graduates of HBCUs have represented their states in Congress and served at other high levels of government, Harris’ nomination represents the first time an alumnus of one of these schools will be featured on a major party’s presidential ticket.
Ibram X. Kendi, the author of “How to be an Antiracist,” a book millions of Americans have rushed to read in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by police, graduated from Florida A&M University, an HBCU. One of the leaders of the Civil Rights era, Jesse Jackson, was the last HBCU graduate to come close to the presidency, when he ran for the Democratic party nomination in 1984 and 1988.
We may be living through a similar moment, Favors said. Harris’ nomination, combined with pop-culture celebration of HBCUs — including Beyoncé’s Homecoming film and top college basketball recruit, Makur Maker’s decision to attend Howard University — may once again fuel increased interest in HBCUs.
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