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Charlotta Bass was the first Black woman to run for Vice President of the United States. Charlotta Spears Bass (1874-1969) one of the first African American women to own and operate a newspaper ...

WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris took the oath office in a barrier-breaking ceremony Wednesday, becoming the first woman, first Black American and first South Asian American to hold ...

“By the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman, to serve with a black president,” he told host Andrea Lawful-Sanders. Elsewhere in the ...

“Your historic role as the first woman, the first Black woman, and the first South Asian woman to serve as Vice President is a profound source of inspiration and pride for us all.” The letter ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- From San Francisco district attorney to California attorney general, U.S. senator, and now the first Black and Asian woman to be nominated for president, Kamala Harris has a ...

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Whatever the outcome, the country is assured its first Afro-Colombian woman vice president ... Her father is white and her mother is Black. But race, she said, was not discussed.

President Joe Biden described himself as “first black woman to serve with a black president” in his latest public gaffe amid speculation of his campaign future, the New York Post reports.

Harris is the first woman, Black person or person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. She joined the Biden ticket after a rocky and abbreviated run of her own for the 2020 ...

Harris is the first woman, Black person or person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. If she becomes the Democratic nominee and defeats Republican candidate Donald Trump in November ...