Harris has notched a series of firsts during a legal and political career that has taken her from California to the office of vice president in Washington.
The 56-year-old daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants was the first woman and person of color to serve as San Francisco’s district attorney, the first woman and first Black person to become California’s attorney general, the first Black person to represent California in the U.S. Senate and the first woman, Black person and Asian American to be elected vice president.
She is also the first vice president with a historically Black college, Howard University, for an alma mater.
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By Cherranda Smith
A portrait of Vice President
Several groups wanted to mark Harris’ historic achievement of being the first Black and Asian American woman to be Vice President of the United States. They unveiled the six foot tall and six foot wide portrait in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday (February 5).
“This will just be a wonderful visual emblem of this moment in time and hopefully people will reflect a little on all the barriers that have been broken by her election,”
Holly Hotchner, president and CEO of the National Women’s History Museum told
Before becoming VP, Harris broke several other barriers, serving as the first woman and person of color district attorney in San Francisco. She was also the first Black person to serve as attorney general of California and later became the first Black Senator from the state.
The Tragic Real-Life Story Of The First Native American Prima Ballerina Baron/Getty Images
By Therese Nguyen/Feb. 8, 2021 2:43 pm EDT
It was the mid-1900s, and ballet was dominated by Russian and European ballerinas. According to the National Women s History Museum, the United States was far from having a strong ballet culture, and there were no prima ballerinas that were American. That is, until Maria Tallchief. Her talent, athleticism, and shining performances revolutionized ballet and helped thrust American ballet to the international stage, earning praise and acknowledgment from all across the world from the 1940s to 1960s. A proud member of the Osage Nation, Tallchief was both the first American prima ballerina and the first Native American prima ballerina. Throughout her life, she would earn prestigious awards and accolades not just in ballet and dance but in honoring her roots as an Oklahoman Osage, such as with her induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame