Presidential Candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) speaks at the West Des Moines Democrat’s Picnic at Legion Park in West Des Moines, Iowa. – West Des Moines, Iowa – July 3, 2019 (Shutterstock) By Sharon Austin, The Conversation The vice president-elect of the United States is the American daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants. With Joe […]
Joe Biden – New USA President – Washington, USA 11/11/2020 (Shutterstock) Tears. Dancing. Hugging. Honking. The sounds of music filling the air. Screaming. Breathing. Sighs of relief. Why? On Saturday, November 7, Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential Elections along with his running mate Kamala Harris. President-elect Biden. Sounds good, really […]
By Natasha Mikles, The Conversation As many Indian Americans celebrate the election of the first Black and South Asian woman, Kamala Harris, to the White House, many will also be celebrating the festival of Diwali on Saturday, Nov. 14. Sometimes called the Indian festival of lights, Diwali is arguably the most important holiday of the […]
Kamala Devi Harris attends a casual talk at the Democratic Picnic, and shares a few things to share with her many supporters. – IOWA – JULY 03, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Mary Campbell On Saturday, November 7, America started to breathe again. Joe Biden was announced as the winner of the 2020 presidential elections along with […]
By ABC13 WILMINGTON, Delaware — Vice president-elect Kamala Harris on Saturday night paid tribute to Black women who “so often prove they are the backbone of our democracy.” Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, is the first woman to be elected to the vice presidency. Harris noted her ascension to the role comes […]
The California senator's poise and firmness made for a satisfying contrast to the vice president's smug condescension and interruptions — but an insect stole the show.
By Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter The first and only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election could’ve been a taste of normalcy — a now-exotic blandness in a brain-melting, sanity-bombarding year. After all, Mike Pence’s main political asset, other than the network of evangelicals that he helped usher into Trump’s base, is supposed to […]
Silence is complicity. There is too much at stake this year to be silent. We MUST participate in our democracy. We MUST demand that our voices are heard. And that means WE MUST VOTE. Voting is our constitutional right, and it’s also our power as We The People. It is how we take back our […]
Watch as Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the 2020 Democratic National Convention to accept the nomination as Vice President. She reflected on how influential her mother was and what Joe Biden and her can accomplish together.
Senator Kamala Harris waves to crowd after announcing her candidacy for president. Oakland, CA/USA – Jan 27, 2019 (Shutterstock) Los Angeles: The CHIRLA Action Fund cheered Presidential Candidate Joe Biden’s pick of Sen. Kamala Harris for his vice-president. In choosing Harris, he has made a historic choice of a woman of color, the first-ever by […]
The Black West Indian diaspora community is a little-discussed but increasingly influential slice of the electorate of the nation’s biggest swing state.
By Marc Caputo, Politico LAUDERHILL, Fla. — Almost as soon as Kamala Harris became the first woman of Jamaican-Indian descent to be nominated for vice president, a mock White House menu of oxtail and jerk chicken cropped up on a West Indian diaspora Facebook group called Soca de Vote. Calls from Caribbean radio show hosts […]