Kamala Harris’s Time Has Come

“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. CHICAGO — A few weeks ago, Democrats were a divided party headed toward a potentially explosive convention in Chicago. Today, those fears are gone, as Kamala Harris has united the party and concluded one of the most successful conventions in American political history. Democrats came into Chicago haunted by three ghosts: 1968, 2000, and 2016, and Kamala Harris banished all of them. When we fight, we win. The ghost of 1968 was the haunting reminder of Chicago, where antiwar demonstrators took over the streets to protest the war in Vietnam. The ghost of 2000 was when the last incumbent Democratic vice president, Al Gore, tried and failed to follow a president into the White House. And the ghost of 2016 was when the last woman, Hillary Clinton, tried to break the glass ceiling to the presidency. (Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) Kamala Harris looked all three of those ghosts in the face and busted them.  This was not 1968. Harris addressed the war in Gaza head on in...