Shortly after launching her own presidential bid in 2019, Kamala Harris joined her sorors at the Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., Annual Pink Ice Gala in Columbia, S.C. Members of the sorority across the nation are celebrating one of their own making history as vice president of the United States. Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
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