The Civil Rights Movement and Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy

Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. The Civil Rights Movement and Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy Black Americans have always sought international connection in service of promoting freedom. By Keisha N. Blain, a professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University, and Amy Sommers, an author and attorney. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris walks with Ben Crump, Doug Emhoff and Al Sharpton in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 3. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris walks with Ben Crump, Doug Emhoff and Al Sharpton in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 3. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Politics United States August 19, 2024, 6:00 AM Comment icon View Comments () Election 2024 logo Stay informed with FP’s news and analysis as the United States prepares to vote. How might the U.S. civil rights movement inform a Harris administration’s approach to foreign policy? How might the U.S. civil rights movement inform a Harris administration’s approach to foreign policy? In a world riven by authoritarian leaders eager to capitalize on American divisions, such an approach would certainly be welcome. And the civil rights movement is arguably directly responsible...