‘For a woman of color to have employees stand when she enters the room smacks of a bygone era that we, as Americans, deplore and find demeaning’ (Marcus Ingram/Getty Images for ESSENCE) As California attorney general, Kamala Harris consistently berated staff members, instructed them to stand and call her “general” when she entered the office,
A San Francisco resident who was attacked by an illegal immigrant in 2008 blamed the incident on then-district attorney Kamala Harris’s soft-on-crime policies, scoffing at the vice president’s record as a California prosecutor in an interview with ABC Monday. In July 2008, Amanda Kiefer was attacked and run down in San Francisco by 20-year-old Alexander
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday endorsed a bill that limits Supreme Court justices to 18-year terms and allows presidents to add a new justice every two years—effectively allowing the Biden administration to push out the Court’s conservative majority. “I support a system in which the president would appoint a justice
One of Kamala Harris’s highest profile responsibilities as vice president has been spearheading the federal government’s billion-dollar efforts to deploy thousands of electric buses across hundreds of school districts nationwide. But years into the program, only a small fraction of those projects have been completed while dozens of school districts have withdrawn from the program
After President Joe Biden stepped aside on Sunday and Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, one of the first people she called was her longtime pastor, Amos Brown. “She said to me, ‘Pastor, I called because I want you to pray for me … this country … and the race I am
US officials scrambled to ‘urge restraint from Israel’ following strike from Iran-backed terror group that killed children Mourners gather at a funeral held for victims of Hezbollah’s rocket attack on civilians in northern Israel. (Amir Levy/Getty Images) The Biden-Harris administration has long worked to keep Israel from confronting Hezbollah. That policy backfired Saturday when the
When I entered Cornell University in 1964, I could not have imagined that given the thousands of future doctors, lawyers, scholars, engineers, architects, and executives in my class, the person destined to have possibly the greatest influence on America’s future would not be one of them. Instead, that role may have been achieved by a