To Celebrate the Glass Ceiling Kamala Harris Shattered, This Artist Installed a Portrait of Her in Washington Made Entirely of Cracked Glass
The installation is on view through Saturday night.
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Glass Ceiling Breaker, based on Celeste Sloman s portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris. The art installation on the National Mall in Washington, DC, is presented by the National Women s History Museum, Chief, and BBH New York. Photo by Shannon Finney courtesy of Getty Images for National Women s History Museum and Chief.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s history-making election as the first female, Black, and Asian American to serve in our nation’s second-highest office has been immortalized in a new artwork.
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Black History: Timeline of the Post-Civil Rights Era
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Jesse Jackson hugging Shirley Chisholm in 1984. Credit: Jacques M. Chenet/Corbis/Getty Images
From the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the 2008 election of Barack Obama, to widespread global protests declaring Black Lives Matter in 2020, African American history in the United States has been filled with both triumph and strife.
Here s a look at some of the notable milestones that took place from the end of the civil rights movement to today.
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot and killed at the age of 38 while standing on the balcony of his Lorraine Motel room in Memphis, Tenn. James Earl Ray was later convicted of the crime and sentenced to a 99-year prison term. President Lyndon B. Johnson designates April 7 as a national day of mourning.
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Marquita Bradshaw was the only Black woman to win a U.S. Senate primary this cycle. She lost the general election for a Tennessee Senate seat. Mark Humphrey/AP
On the day that California Gov. Gavin Newsom named Kamala Harris replacement in the U.S. Senate, Molly Watson jumped on a call with other organizers and the two Black women in Congress whom they had urged Newsom to appoint to the seat instead.
It was an emotional conversation, in which Watson said she struggled to hold back tears. It cut pretty deep knowing that we were going to be fully erased from the Senate, said Watson, of the progressive group Courage California.