WASHINGTON (AP) For more than two centuries, the top ranks of American power have been dominated by men almost all of them white. That ends on Wednesday. Kamala Harris will become the.
Harris - the child of immigrants, a stepmother of two and the wife of a Jewish man - "carries an intersectional story of so many Americans who are never seen and heard."
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Vice-President Harris: A new chapter opens in US politics
by Kathleen Ronayne And Alexandra Jaffe, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 20, 2021 12:19 am EDT
Last Updated Jan 20, 2021 at 12:28 am EDT
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks during a COVID-19 memorial, with lights placed around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON For more than two centuries, the top ranks of American power have been dominated by men almost all of them white. That ends on Wednesday.
Kamala Harris will become the first female vice-president and the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to hold the role.