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Vol. 31, Issue 34 BROOKLYN EDITION August 21-27, 2020
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) accepts the Democratic vice presidential nomination
during an acceptance speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National
Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., Aug. 19, 2020. REUTERS
/ Kevin Lamarque
By Nelson A. King
Caribbean American Sen.
Kamala Harris Wednesday night
accepted the US Democratic
Party’s nomination for the vice
presidency.
Harris, the daughter of Jamaican
and Indian immigrants,
accepted the nomination on the
third night of the virtual Democratic
National Convention
(DNC).
Just over a week ago, US
Democratic Presidential Candidate,
Joe Biden selected Harris,
a senator from California, as his
vice-presidential running mate
in the Democratic race to defeat
incumbent Republican President
Donald J. Trump in the Nov. 3 US
Presidential Elections.
Harris, 55, is the first Black
woman and the first person of
Indian heritage to be nominated
for national office by a major US
party.
She is also only the fourth
woman in American history to be
selected for a presidential ticket.
In 1972, the late Shirley Anita
Chisholm, née St. Hill, the daughter
of a Barbadian mother and a
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By Bert Wilkinson
Not a thing has changed in the
five electoral districts where the
main opposition United National
Congress (UNC) had demanded
recounts after the disputed Aug.
10 general elections in Trinidad,
paving the way for the cabinet of
Prime Minister, Keith Rowley to
be sworn in en bloc for a second
five year term.
Rowley and his full cabinet with
several new faces were scheduled
to be sworn in late Wednesday
after the elections commission
had completed the recount of the
so-called five marginal districts
where the UNC had alleged electoral
fraud and irregularities.
Leader and former PM Kamla
Persad-Bissessar officially conceded
her party’s loss but vowed
to controversially stay on as
UNC head contending that she
will need to be the face of the
rebuilding process in the short
term. Rowley’s Afro-dominated
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Harris accepts VP nomination
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