Only Dem candidate educated at a HBCU will have an opportunity to debate at one

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Stephanie Ramirez @RamirezReports 32m
Ahead of tonight's third #DemDebate being held on the HBCU campus of @TexasSouthern, @KamalaHarris took out an ad in TSU's student paper to describe her experience at the HBCU she attended: @HowardU
Reported by @LaCraiMitchell & myself:



Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, 1986 photo. Kamala Harris is in the back row, fourth from the left. Inez Brown, AKA sorority member

____ The only Democratic candidate educated at a historically black college will have an opportunity to debate at an HBCU Thursday evening when the field takes the stage for the third presidential debate, at Texas Southern University in Houston. Harris, who graduated from Howard University, cherished her time there and that was a message she wanted to convey to TSU's students.

She took out a full-page ad in the student newspaper and wrote the students an open letter about her experience at Howard, which she ranked as one of the two things that had a "profound impact" on her life, just behind her mother and her family.

"I'll always remember freshman orientation," Harris recalled, "walking into the auditorium and seeing hundreds of people — and everyone looked like me."

To attend an HBCU is, she said, to be "constantly reminded you are young, gifted and Black." And that experience, she suggested, prepared her for spending "my career in rooms where I was the only one who looked like me. I know how important it is to center our voices in the conversation as we build an America we can all see ourselves in."

read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-kamala-harris-education-at-a-black-college-shaped-her/


Kamala Harris, center, with Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters, undated photo. Inez Brown, AKA sorority member

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Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris 3h
Later today I’ll step on stage at @TexasSouthern. As a proud graduate of an HBCU, I'm hopeful this debate will shine a light on what we can do as a nation to strengthen and improve some of our nation’s most important higher education institutions.

[Kurt V.]

1. gosh, that kinda choked me up thinking of the implication. k&r