Kamala Harris
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Hollywood's Biggest Names Are Lining Up to Throw Their Support Behind Kamala Harris
Thus far, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has raised $13.2 million—the second largest haul of any presidential candidate. But while a majority of that money has come from contributions of less than $100, Hollywood appears to have a love affair with the former California Attorney General too. The Los Angeles Times reports that luminaries such…
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Presidential Hopeful Kamala Harris Released Her Tax Documents. Trump Still Hasn't.
California Sen. Kamala Harris reports that she and her husband had an adjusted gross income of about $1.9 million in 2018 and paid about $700,000 in federal taxes, according to AP News. The Democratic candidate for president, who released 15 years of tax returns, showed income last year of about $157,000 from her job in…
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Beto O'Rouke on Reparations: 'I Would Sign That Into Law'
Thus far, the list of Democratic candidates who could very well be our next president is lengthy. Bernie Sanders has returned from the grave to throw his name back in the hat, Cory Booker has proven himself a viable candidate—or not, and Kamala Harris has been spreading the gospel of truth, leadership and optimism wherever…
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Kamala Harris Welcomes Dreamers to Work in Congress With New Bill
Kamala Harris is playing no games when it comes to immigration reform. On Wednesday, the former California state attorney general will join Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.) in introducing legislation that would make Dreamers eligible to work as staffers or interns in Congress. Currently the approximately 700,000 participants in the program can…
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Cha-Ching! Kamala Harris Has Raised $12 Million Thus Far for Presidential Bid
Nearly three months removed from announcing her candidacy for president, it looks like Sen. Kamala Harris’ campaign is off to a strong start. On Tuesday, her campaign announced that she raised $12 million during the first fundraising quarter of the 2020 campaign season. “A nationwide network of hundreds of thousands of grassroots supporters has stepped…
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Prominent South Carolina Democrats Co-Sign Kamala Harris
Five distinguished South Carolina Democrats, including one of its longest-serving black lawmakers, are throwing their support behind the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris—providing an early push to the former state attorney general in a critical early-voting state. According to the Associated Press, the list includes a trio of black legislators: State Sen. Darrell Jackson…
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Cut the Check: Kamala Harris Announces $315 Billion Plan to Address Educational Inequality in Black and Brown Communities, Jump-start HBCUs
On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris unveiled her intention to deliver the largest federal investment in teacher pay in the history of the United States. In declaring a crisis in teacher pay in America, Harris noted that public school teachers are paid 11 percent less than similar professionals with college degrees, and expressed her commitment…
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Kamala Harris Spreads the Gospel of Truth, Leadership and Optimism During Ebenezer Baptist Church, Morehouse Visits
This weekend, guess which Democratic presidential candidate became one of the first to throw a major public campaign event in metro Atlanta? If you guessed U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (headlines can be misleading), you’d be correct—as the former attorney who could one day run our country brought her infectious energy to both Ebenezer Baptist Church…