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Harris Makes History Amid Rough and Tumble of Campaign

Ken Bredemeier

   Vice President-elect Kamala Harris parlayed a career as a California
   prosecutor, attorney general and U.S. senator to the second most
   powerful job in the United States.

   Harris will be the first African American woman and first South Asian
   American to be vice president when she and President-elect Joe Biden
   take their oaths of office on January 20.

   She introduced herself at the Democratic convention as the daughter of
   Indian and Jamaican immigrants and pledged to work to make America more
   inclusive after four years of the Trump administration, which she
   described as making the country more divided.

   Harris has said that she and Biden share a "vision of our nation as a
   beloved community -- where all are welcome, no matter what we look
   like, where we come from, or who we love."

   The Biden-Harris ticket was forged despite sharp differences between
   the two during the Democratic Party's presidential primary election
   season in debating race relations, use of busing to integrate schools
   and Biden's civil rights record as a U.S. senator from Delaware.

   In accepting her party's vice presidential nomination after ending her
   own presidential campaign, Harris asked Americans to join her in
   fighting racism and xenophobia.

   "There is no vaccine for racism. We've got to do the work," she said.

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