Kamala Harris' roots are planted in a history of Black activism

In 1925, a little-known female activist at the center of the Pan-African movement made a hopeful prediction:

“We would not be surprised if, within the next 10 years, a woman graces the White House in Washington, D.C.,” Amy Jacques Garvey wrote in an editorial for the Negro World, the newspaper of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association. “Be not discouraged, [B]lack women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you. A race must be saved...