Kamala Harris: First black American nominee for Vice President

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden chose Senator Kamala Harris as his vice presidential pick in the November 2020 elections. This makes the California senator the first Black American woman to run on a major political party’s presidential post in the history of the United States, noting, that Kamala, 55, has run against Biden for the Democratic nomination. In a brief synopsis, Harris, was born in Oakland, California, to immigrant parents from Jamaica and India. She joined law school influenced by the civil movement protests in which her father was a prominent activist and graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989. She previously held the position of district attorney in the State of California and was involved in a sweeping police reform campaign amid anti-racism demonstrations across the US. Commenting on her nomination, Biden described Harris as a fearless fighter and one of the finest public servants in the country. The US President Donald Trump on his part, told Fox Sports Radio that some men may feel “offended” by Biden’s bold decision to choose a woman for vice president. And according to BBC, Biden has been inspired in the past few months by increasing demands to pick a woman of color for the position, especially in the wake of the social unrest caused by racial injustices and police brutality against African Americans. (Al Diyar, August 13, 2020)