Kamala Harris will spend election night time at Howard College

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, will host an election night time occasion subsequent Tuesday at her alma mater, Howard College, a college spokesperson confirmed in an e-mail to Inside Greater Ed.

The Harris-Walz marketing campaign will host an occasion on campus because the votes are available. Lessons can be held remotely on Monday and are canceled on Tuesday to encourage scholar voting, in response to The Hilltop, Howard’s scholar newspaper. The campus can be closed to the general public Tuesday. 

The traditionally Black college in Washington, D.C., has been a key a part of Harris’s candidacy since she introduced she can be changing President Biden on the ticket in July. Her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, has mobilized alumnae members to marketing campaign for her, and she or he had a debate prep session there in August earlier than her debate towards Republican nominee Donald Trump. When she introduced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination in 2019, she did so from Howard. 

Harris’s alma mater has lengthy occupied a particular place in her life—and the narrative of her path to the vice presidency. In her memoir she wrote that at Howard, “You did not have to be confined to the field of one other individual’s selecting.”

“At Howard,” she wrote, “you may come as you had been and depart because the individual you aspired to be.” 

On Tuesday night time, she might depart campus as the primary HBCU graduate elected president of america.