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At a rally Sunday in her hometown of Oakland, she officially launched her presidential campaign by tapping those same populist themes. A crowd that rally organizers estimated at 20,000 people filled the streets around a flag-draped Frank Ogawa Plaza, where Harris made her opening 2020 pitch: She will be the candidate who is both “a fighter for the people” and someone who can unite a country severed into partisan corners by saying that “we must seek truth, speak truth and fight for the truth.” “People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. “Our United States of America is not about us against them. I’m running to be a president by the people, of the people, for all people.” Sunday’s rally capped a weeklong White House campaign rollout for Harris, 54, the former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, that highlighted her roots. The daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica announced her campaign on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on ABC’s “Good Morning America”; stopped by her alma mater, Howard University; then appeared at a fundraiser for Alpha Kappa Alpha, her college sorority, at a gala Friday in South Carolina, a key early primary state. Her speech Sunday offered a road map of where she will take her campaign — starting with a full embrace of the progressive agenda. She intends to pay for it by eliminating parts of President Trump’s tax law that benefited the wealthiest Americans and by placing a tax on financial institutions. She has also introduced legislation that would give a tax break to renters. Wicks was a top state organizer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. “If I have the honor of being your president, I will tell you this: I am not perfect.

And Zimbabwean psychedelic rock band Wells Fargo had a hit with a song called, "Watch Out." We had to change it to, 'Watch out, big storm is coming.'" The group mostly plays covers — they are much less famous than Wells Fargo was — and nearly all of the musicians are about 40 years younger than Chitambo. They have only ever known a Zimbabwe ruled by Mugabe. The group sits around a table at a hotel bar in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, before a gig and the younger musicians have questions for Chitambo about making music in politically charged times. He asks Chitambo if he should sing about the changes in their country and make songs that "touch the people's hearts." This election will be the first Mabhena has ever voted in. Friends Band's 27-year-old singer Zinzile Majola says it felt like a window opened when Mugabe left. And just as Wells Fargo sang about freedom coming at the birth of Zimbabwe independence, Mabhena says he wants to write a song about the better Zimbabwe he hopes is coming after this month's election. "The song I will write about is a song believing change is near and there is hope."

Even by Rasta standards, Damian Marley’s dreadlocks look incredible. They’re left flowing as he leaves for the House of Commons. He was brought up in a privileged area of Kingston called Stony Hill by his mother Cindy Breakspeare, a former Miss World and the subject of the Wailers song Is This Love?, and her husband Tom Tavares-Finson, a criminal attorney and politician. “My stepfather and my little brother and sister are white Jamaicans – I was the only one of brown complexion in the house that we were in. After he left school, he adopted his dad’s Rastafarian faith. There is a sliver of discomfort at how relentlessly his father’s image is marketed by his estate: not only the expected 40th-anniversary reissue albums and T-shirts but Bob Marley room spray, Bob Marley lip balm and Bob Marley Mellow Mood low-calorie raspberry tea lemonade. “I’m a fan of some of them and some of them … not so much.” He has other plans outside of making music. And that despite the fact he has never voted. Damian Marley is touring Europe until 31 August. His album Stony Hill is out now.