Current Events > Smithsonian: Why Kamala Harris' Pearls Have a Special Significance

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AtilisGym
01/21/21 11:12:53 PM
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-kamala-harris-pearls-have-special-significance-180976766/

On August 19, 2020, Senator Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. When the suit-clad former prosecutor stepped up to the podium to give her speech, she commended the women who fought for the right to vote and the women in her family who nurtured her.

My mother instilled in my sister Maya and me the values that we chart, she said, smiling at the camera. She added, She taught us to put family first. [Both] the family you're born into and the family you choose.

Then, she named an important member of her chosen family.

Family is my beloved Alpha Kappa Alpha, she said.

Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA)one of the nations oldest black sororities, whose members include luminaries like actress Phylicia Rashad and poet Maya Angelouhad a profound impact on Harris life. The vice president-elect joined the esteemed sorority in 1986 when she was a senior at Howard University, a federally chartered historically black university (HBCU), notes Janelle Okwodu in Vogue. But Harris affiliation with the group didnt end when she graduatedher line sisters would become close friends, and many of them encouraged her on the campaign trail by making donations of exactly $19.08, a reference to the year AKA was founded.

The senators tribute to AKA highlighted her affection for the group. In fact, her emotional connection to the sorority runs so deep that she wore a symbol in support of her sistersa 34 necklace bejeweled with Akoya and South Sea pearlsto her acceptance speech.

The strand of pearls speaks to solidarity among the members, Glenda Glover, international president of AKA, told Vanity Fairs Daisy Shaw-Ellis in a 2020 article. Its a great moment for AKA. For African Americans. For women. Whether she wears pearls or not, its an inspiration.

Harris often expresses this solidary and has worn pearls at important events from her college graduation photoshoot to her swearing in ceremony as a United States senator of California in 2017. For this reason, thousands of women plan to wear pearls on Inauguration Day in support of Harris...

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Doom_Art
01/21/21 11:14:00 PM
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And here I thought she wore them just to look like Lisa Simpson.

Shows what I know

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lolife67
01/21/21 11:15:44 PM
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It's interesting watching people find out about black fraternities/sororities like they're new. Not to mention HBCU culture in general.
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R1masher
01/21/21 11:19:24 PM
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Ill give her a pearl necklace

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AtilisGym
01/21/21 11:22:43 PM
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