Howard, The ‘Black Harvard’ Where Harris Will Spend Election Night

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Washington: Kamala Harris will watch Tuesday’s election night from the campus of Howard University her alma mater a fitting place for possibly the most significant night of her life.

Nicknamed “the Black Harvard,” the Washington school occupies a central role in the US vice president’s biography: Since graduating there in 1986, she has frequently returned at key moments.

“Howard University is one of the most important aspects of my life,” she said in 2019 as a candidate in the Democratic presidential primaries, “and it is where I first ran for my first elected office,” as a student council representative.

“So this is where it all began.”

Her presence there Tuesday night when Harris could become the first Black woman to be elected US president  is thus deeply symbolic.