Harris is the first graduate of a historically Black college or university selected as a presidential candidate's running mate. As many HBCUs are struggling financially, seeing her in the White House would be a ringing vindication of Black college culture.
Kamala Harris walked into a packed auditorium for her freshman orientation at Howard University and experienced a revelation.
As she studied her classmates at the historically Black school in Washington, D.C., she saw a mini-rainbow coalition of faces from around the US, Africa, the Caribbean and other places -- many impossible to fit into a neat box because their racial and socioeconomic backgrounds were so varied."I stood in the back, looked around and thought, 'This is heaven!' Harris recounts in her biography,"The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
And it's the constant reminder that you walk in the footsteps of famous HBCU graduates like John Lewis , Ella Baker , the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as well as contemporary leaders like voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams and author Ta-Nehisi Coates .HBCUs are places where a Black person could go"without having your intellect or your humanity called into question," Favors wrote in his book.
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