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With three simple words, Kamala Harris sent out her first official tweet as Vice President: "Ready to serve." https://twitter.com/VP/status/1351938078643003393 With that, a new chapter in American history has begun. Asian American Congressional leaders offered their congratulations and hopes for the future. "The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer,"...

Screenshot of AAPI women organizers working on voter outreach for the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. by Akemi Tamanaha, Associate Editor When Bianca Jyotishi was a young girl, she and her sister were ridiculed for the Indian food they brought to school. The ridicule even radiated off teachers whose classrooms...

Photo courtesy of Aasim Yahya By Melissa Young, AsAmNews Intern Aasim Yahya was relatively apolitical prior to 2016. He knew he wanted to make a difference, but wasn’t sure exactly how. Then President Donald Trump enacted the January 2017 executive order banning U.S. entry for nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries. For Yahya,...

With Wednesday inauguration just days away, some are wondering if Kamala Harris might wear a sari on inauguration day. The American Bazaar reports the question first came up during her presidential run in 2019. "Let's win first," Harris responded to a question from the audience. “My mother raised us with a...

photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr Creative Commons By Patricia Pan Connor The leaked February Vogue cover featuring Vice President-elect Kamala Harris caused a Twitter storm over the weekend.  Whether or not you like one image more than the other, the main problem with it is that the Vice President-elect’s...

Vogue's cover story on Kamala Harris in its February edition will feature a cover photo of Harris in tennis shoes, reports The Hill. The choice which surprised those in the Vice President-elect's office has outraged some on social media. https://twitter.com/voguemagazine/status/1348284503081574403 The photo selected for the cover is on the left in...

Fresh off her November election, a new Gallup Poll released today revealed Kamala Harris has already become the second most admired women in the United States. She trails only Michelle Obama who took the top spot for the third year in a row, reports The Hill. The daughter of an...

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is the latest high profile politician to be vaccinated to ward off the coronavirus. Harris, along with her husband Doug Emhoff, received the vaccine Tuesday morning at United Medical Center in southeast Washington, D.C. “That was easy! I barely felt it,” Harris said to reporters, according to...

In a year when anti-Asian hate reached a fever pitch, two major US publications this month named three high profile Asians their persons of the year. Time named Joe Biden and Kamala Harris its persons of the year with Harris the first Vice President-elect ever to win the honor. Biden,...

A racist social media post used a watermelon to depict VP-elect Kamala Harris Facebook is facing scrutiny from civil rights groups and media think tanks who say that the social media giant is not doing enough to combat hate speech against Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. WXYZ Detroit reports that one such...

The election of Kamala Harris to Vice President could pave the way for Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Silicon Valley) to be named to the US Senate. The Indian American is one of several names being bantered that California Governor Gavin Newsom might be considering to replace Harris in the Upper House. Voters...

The family of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris shared an intimate moment between Harris and her great niece. Meena Harris posted a video of her daughter on the VP-elect's lap during which the two talked about the four-year old's ambitions. "You can be president, but you have to be over the age...

Via Flickr Creative Commons by Gage Skidmore Kamala Harris is projected to become the first female, Black, and South Asian American vice president, reports CNN. Following a prolonged vote count and a close race in multiple battleground states, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were announced as the projected winners of the...

Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr Creative Commons. A Republican member of the Upper Township Committee in Cape May County, New Jersey wants his job back after posting vulgar images of Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris on social media, reports HuffPost. Hobard "Hobie" Young drew backlash after posting digitally manipulated...

Photo of Sen. David Perdue via Flickr Creative Commons by Gage Skidmore A Senate Republican who has served with Kamala Harris for nearly three years bungled the Vice Presidential nominee's name during a Trump rally. The Hill reports Democrats are calling for Sen. David Hill (R- GA) to apologize, accusing...

by Akemi Tamanaha, Associate Editor On Tuesday night Asian Americans across the nation watched Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence face each other at the first and only Vice Presidential debate. The debate marked the first time ever an Asian American and person of color...

A new analysis shows that the rate of "Birtherism" lies about vice-presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on the internet has surpassed that of President Barack Obama, The New York Times reports. Media insights company Zignal Labs reported that in the week the Biden presidential campaign announced Harris as...

Missouri sports radio host Nate Lucas was temporarily suspended on August 31 after making offensive on-air comments about vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Springfield News-Leader reports. A recording of "The Nate Lucas Show," which plays from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Springfield, Missouri's Jock station, could not be...

Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr Creative Commons Gamers will now have a chance to support their presidential nominee by decorating their virtual islands with Democratic signs on Animal Crossing: New Horizons, The Verge reports. Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his Vice President nominee Kamala Harris hope to catch...

By Clifton Yin I was participating in a virtual event this year in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and the subject of racial identity arose. After one attendee mentioned Senator Kamala Harris, another scoffed that “she’s not really Asian, she doesn’t really talk about it.”...