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Vogue featuring Vice President-elect Kamala Harris leaked to an extremely critical reception.
Captured by Tyler Mitchell who made history as the first Black photographer to shoot a
Vogue cover in 2018 the image shows Harris against a sumptuous background of pink and green, the color of her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She s dressed in a Donald Deal jacket, tapered pants, Converse shoes, with a string of pearls around her neck. The image radiates the kind of painfully studied casualness politicians give off, as if Harris stepped into a ready-made set fresh off the campaign trail.
The unexpected uproar concerned the fact that Harris s clothes and positioning did not quite match the tenor of the occasion of her being the first Black-American, first South Asian-American, first woman elected to the Vice Presidency.
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Kamala Harris at the 59th presidential inauguration on Wednesday (Jan. 20).
“It is our esteemed honor to be involved in the historic inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris,” said Howard President
Wayne A. I. Frederick in a press release. “Throughout her career, the vice president-elect has carried her Howard education with her, ensuring that she adhere to truth and service and inspiring her to achieve unprecedented levels of excellence.”
He continued, “It is perfectly fitting that the Showtime Marching Band, the ensemble that captures and reverberates the heartbeat of our institution, should accompany her on this last leg of her journey to the White House.”