Howard University is where Vice President Kamala Harris spent some of the most formative years of her life, and it’s where she’ll be on election night, when could find out the fate of her 2024 bid for the presidency.
Harris has maintained close ties with her alma mater, a Washington, D.C., Historically Black College and University.
“I am proud to be the first HBCU vice president of the United States. I intend to be the first HBCU president of the United States,” Harris told Charlamagne tha God in a recent interview .
The Democratic presidential candidate graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in 1986. On the campus, nestled on a hill in Washington, D.C., she also pledged the first Black sorority in the U.S., Alpha Kappa Alpha. The HBCU was founded in 1869 and is often referred to as “The Mecca” for its storied legacy of producing Black community leaders like civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
If elected, Harris would be the first Black woman to win the presidency, and she has already made history as the first Black woman to secure the nomination of a major party. But her racial identity is something she seldom brings up on the campaign trail, despite the historic nature of her campaign. (READ MORE)
