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November 9, 2020

Kamala Harris Becomes First Woman, African American, Asian American Vice President
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Kamala Harris makes history many times over. She is the first-ever woman
vice president. She is also the first African American, first South
Asian, first Indian Tamil American and the first Caribbean American to
hold the office. Harris is the daughter of immigrants: an Indian mother
and a Jamaican father. The junior senator from California previously
served as the state's attorney general and, before that, as San
Francisco's district attorney. In her victory speech Saturday, Harris
paid tribute to Black women and the generations of women who fought for
equal rights.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris: "Women who fought and sacrificed so
much for equality and liberty and justice for all, including the Black
women who are often - too often - overlooked but so often prove they are
the backbone of our democracy, all the women who have worked to secure
and protect the right to vote for over a century - 100 years ago with
the 19th Amendment, 55 years ago with the Voting Rights Act and now in
2020 with a new generation of women in our country who cast their
ballots and continued the fight for their fundamental right to vote and
be heard."

President-elect Biden is expected to issue a set of executive orders as
soon as he takes office in January, rolling back some of Trump's most
harmful and contested policies, including the Muslim travel ban, the
transgender military ban, reinstating protections for DREAMers, and
reinstating environmental and other regulations. He has also vowed to
rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and reverse Trump's withdrawal from
the World Health Organization.


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