Kamala Harris’s shining moment in Tennessee

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Kamala Harris’s shining moment in Tennessee

… stood by her two African American colleagues in a show … expulsions of the two African American legislators and the … before a young, mostly African American audience, Harris denounced those …

As the first female, African American, and Asian vice president, …

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