Over 10,000 Calif. Black Women Join Kamala Harris Support Effort

Tanu Henry | California Black Media (CBM) – At a rally held in front of City Hall on July 22 in San Francisco — where Kamala Harris served as D.A. from 2004 to 2001 before becoming Attorney General of the state — Bay Area elected officials, advocates and other stakeholders gathered to show support for one their own. “Right now. she needs us more than ever,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed told a cheering crowd of well-wishers. “We as Democrats, we don’t have time to waste,” Breed leaned in. “We don’t have time to mess around and figure things out. Kamala Harris is the person.” The event was held one day after President Joe Biden announced his decision to drop out of the 2024 race for President and endorse Harris. In various cities across California and around the country, Black women are coming together and echoing a similar level of passion to Breed’s as they express their full-hearted support of Harris’ run for the White House. California State Controller Malia Cohen — a former San Francisco official herself – described the diverse makeup of the Democrats attending the San Francisco rally and called on them to commit to Harris’s winning...