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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.

California Senator Kamala Harris will give brief remarks and take questions from media at her alma mater, Howard University in Washington, D.C., following her announcement this morning that she will run for President. #FoxNews FOX News Channel (FNC) is a…

Students at Howard University occupied the campus’s Johnson Administration Building in protest in 1968. Now, current Howard students are in day seven of an occupation of their own. Other demands were more Howard-specific, and a few of those were quite far-reaching: Students want the power to “directly propose new policies and revise existing policies”; ratify all hiring of administrators, trustees, and faculty; and most of all, they want the resignation of the university’s president, Wayne A.I. Two days after that, on Thursday of last week, HU Resist students started to fill the administration building in protest. President Frederick, who had already been speaking to media and issuing statements after the news of the financial-aid scandal spread, responded to a handful of the student grievances the following day. Over the next several days, as the protest drew national attention, there was a war of statements. Faculty announced its support of the students. But many of the issues historically black colleges and universities are in no way specific to them. The students at Howard see power and want more of it. “This entire protest is dictated not by the resignation of the president,” McCollum says, “but by the ideal of student power, and letting students have a bigger voice on their university’s campus.” What’s striking—as other campuses may soon find—is not what they are asking for, but their commitment to getting it.

On March 27, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) honored the late Dr. Ronald Walters, who was a Black political scholar, at the Thurgood Marshall Center in the District of Columbia. “This is a special time to honor Dr. Walters,” Dr. Elsie Scott, the director of Howard’s Ronald Walters Center. “His spirit is in this room. In 1958, he led other young Blacks in a successful sit-in protest of the Dockum Drug Store in Wichita for refusing to serve African Americans and this took place two years before the more highly publicized Greensboro, N.C. sit-ins. He came to Howard University in 1971 and became chairman of the political science department before leaving it in 1996 to become the head of the Afro-American studies department at the University of Maryland, College Park. “Ronald Walters was a scholar and intellectual,” Brazile said. “Ron believed that Black people should work within the political system to change it.” Winbush said that Walters was a firm believer in Black liberation and was a proponent of reparations. “He believed Black people were due for the centuries of work put into this country without compensation.” Madison said he first met Walters at the 1972 Black Political convention that took place in Gary, Ind., and was impressed by him then. We had a private meeting where he told me how to register voters to help Jackson without getting in trouble with the NAACP.” Madison echoed the sentiments of Scott when he said that Walters would go to the Black media first with news. “When Ron wanted to say something, he went to the Black media first,” Madison said.