Kamala Harris for President

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. “There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.”   That’s what it felt like this week when President Joe Biden dropped out of the race for re-election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Party’s new nominee. Now the party must unite behind Kamala Harris, allow her to pick a new running mate, and move on to defeat Donald Trump. RELATED: With a Trump Win, Republican Judges Will Rule the Courts—and Our Lives After weeks of Democratic in-fighting, Biden’s historic withdrawal shifts the momentum away from the Republican Party and back toward the Democrats heading into their convention in Chicago next month. The great stunt queen, Donald Trump, thought he won the publicity wars last week when he dramatically announced his new running mate, the inexperienced freshman Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, and told the world the story of surviving an assassination attempt in his rambling 90-minute convention speech. Now that’s old news, and we have a fundamentally different race. Instead of a contest...