Opinion: Kamala Harris Has a Fight to Win—and Black America Must Support Her
“We are running a people-powered campaign, and we just had some breaking news—we just had the best 24 hours of grassroots fundraising in presidential campaign history. And because we are a people-powered campaign, that is how you know we will be a people-first presidency.”
That was Vice President Kamala Harris speaking during a rally in Wisconsin, just a little more than 48 hours after President Joe Biden announced that he was ending his bid for re-election and dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. Biden endorsed Harris for the Democratic nomination, which likely means that the VP will be facing off against GOP nominee Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance—if Harris secures the party nomination, which seems almost like a foregone conclusion at this point.
On a video call with reportedly more than 53,000 Black men, I got a glimpse of what the future could mean–even beyond political party gamesmanship and election year anxieties. Journalist Roland Martin, activists Michael Blake, Khalil Thompson and Quentin James, and political commentator Bakari Sellers hosted the men's conference call “Win With Black Men.”