Let's Talk About Kamala Harris

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Let's Talk About Kamala Harris

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Oct 14, 2020

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The VP candidate's biography and heritage allow people to project all kinds of ideas onto her, and to see what they want to see. But Kamala Harris's identity is a very important lens into not just her own politics, but also Black politics around crime and punishment more broadly.

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Oct 14, 2020

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