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Howard University honors VP Kamala Harris with 49 bell tolls and Black national anthem
Harris historic inauguration has been hailed as a triumph by HBCUs.
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WASHINGTON As Kamala Harris became the 49th vice president of the United States on Wednesday morning, the bells at her alma mater Howard University in Washington, D.C., tolled 49 times to honor the historic moment.
Harris, who is of Black and South Asian descent, became the first woman vice president and the first woman of color to hold this office after she was sworn in on Inauguration Day by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Inauguration Day fashion standout moments included Kamala Harris' purple coat and pearls, American designers worn by Joe Biden and Jill Biden, and Bernie Sanders' mittens.
Attending the inauguration in person is discouraged, but the delegation plans to be there in advance. We need to have voices of clergy courageously standing forth, more now than ever, and it just did not cross our minds to cancel this event, said Rev. Marshall Hatch, New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church.
Pastor Hatch was at his West Side church Monday for service on Martin Luther King Day. He will be in D.C. by tomorrow. It is very important to have voices calling for health reconciliation, national unity and to wish the new administration well, he said.
The group will have a press conference and prayer in front of the National Cathedral, for what they are calling Saving the Soul of America.
The guard sending people to the nation s capital is nothing new. It happens every four years. The difference is that in the past, the units were communications or civil support and never more than 20.
This deployment has 300.
Those guardsman will specifically be assisting the D.C. Metro Police. They re stationed at six Metro stops and are on call for engagement, which means, if there were to be an attack, the NC guard is the primary backup.
North Carolina s contingent of soldiers is among the nearly 25,000 from all 50 states and even four territories.
Lt. Col. Jim. McVeigh says, despite this unprecedented assignment, his North Carolina troops remain positive, despite not knowing exactly when they ll be home.