And what also moved me about Joe is the work he did, as he went back and forth. Joe will be a president who turns our challenges into purpose.

And here’s the thing — we can do better, and deserve so much more. Like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work — packing lunches before we woke up — and paying bills after we went to bed. I keep thinking about that 25-year-old Indian woman, all of five feet tall, who gave birth to me at Kaiser hospital in Oakland, Calif. On that day, she probably could have never imagined that I would be standing before you now and speaking these words: I accept your nomination for vice president of the United States of America.”.

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My mother instilled in my sister, Maya, and me the values that would chart the course of our lives.

In this election, we have a chance to change the course of history. The memorial, called the the “South’s Defenders Memorial Monument,” was a tribute to the Confederate soldiers who fought to uphold white supremacy. Yet so many of the Black women who helped secure that victory were still prohibited from voting long after its ratification, but they were undeterred. We will tell them not just how we felt.

But as Americans, we all stand on their shoulders. I accept your nomination for vice president of the United States of America. Women like Mary Church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Diane Nash, Constance Baker Motley, and the great Shirley Chisholm. We already are. We’re all in this fight. These women and the generations that followed worked to make democracy and opportunity real in the lives of all of us who followed.

Joe will bring us together to squarely face and dismantle racial injustice, furthering the work of generations. They went to sleep every night with the sound of his voice reading bedtime stories. As the Trump campaign debuts an LGBTQ coalition, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, one of the most influential journalists covering the White House, is highlighting Trump’s record of attacks on trans rights: 1. And God bless the United States of America. We believe that our country — all of us — will stand together for a better future. Make no mistake, the road ahead will not be not easy. One of the things he emphasized in the interview, Lowery reports: One thing the family is particularly upset about — the uncle just gave me a call to make sure I had noted this in our interview — is that Jacob Blake, shot seven times and paralyzed, has been handcuffed to his hospital bed.

shot seven times in the back by police and left paralyzed. In the streets of Oakland and Berkeley, I got a stroller’s-eye view of people getting into what the great John Lewis called good trouble.

My mother taught me that service to others gives life purpose and meaning.

Today that country feels distant. And we see it in so many of you, who are working not just to get us through our current crisis, but to somewhere better.

That led me to become a lawyer, a district attorney, attorney general and a United States Senator. I have fought for children and survivors of sexual assault. But for some locals, there is at least one “small blessing” amid the wreckage: a Confederate monument has been toppled by the storm. Family is the friends I turn to when my mother — the most important person in my life — passed away from cancer.

The constant chaos leaves us adrift.

Shocking words were heard at a Democrat fundraiser for criminal justice reform yesterday (April 30) from presidential hopeful, Kamala Harris.While giving a speech on the effectiveness of zero punishment prosecutions, she veered off script to talk about impeaching our president and describe in detail one “crime” she would not hesitate to punish, to the absolute delight of the liberal crowd. We see it in the doctors, the nurses, the home health care workers and front-line workers who are risking their lives to save people they’ve never met.

It’s also been the gun of choice for young male perpetrators of some of America’s most infamous mass murders, including the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida. To believe public service is a noble cause and the fight for justice is a shared responsibility. We see it in the doctors, the nurses, the home health care workers and the frontline workers who are risking their lives to save people they’ve never met.

In a roughly 17-minute address, Ms. Harris, whose mother was from India and whose father was from Jamaica, walked voters through the early days of her life growing up in the Bay Area in California. It’s about you, and it’s about us.

What an awesome responsibility. It is truly an honor to be speaking with you. That’s the vision that our parents and grandparents fought for, the vision that made my own life possible, the vision that makes the American promise — for all its complexities and imperfections — a promise worth fighting for. https://t.co/xtMO14cj6A. Harris and Biden recently spoke to the Blake family, and Harris publicly gave her sympathies to them on Thursday. And what also moved me about Joe is the work that he did as he was going back and forth. If you’re a parent struggling with your child’s remote learning, or you’re a teacher struggling on the other side of that screen, you know that what we’re doing right now isn’t working.

During the Great Recession, he and I spoke on the phone nearly every day, working together to win back billions of dollars for homeowners from the big banks that foreclosed on people’s homes.

And I will tell you, I knew Joe as vice president.

Thank you.

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That I am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations before me. The charges against Rittenhouse in Kenosha County include first degree reckless homicide in the death of Joseph Rosenbaum and first degree intentional homicide in the death of Anthony Huber, according to the complaint. It’s not about Joe or me. Tom McCarthy and In the streets of Oakland and Berkeley, I got a stroller’s-eye view of people getting into what the great John Lewis called “good trouble.”.

Yet so many of the Black women who helped secure that victory were still prohibited from voting, long after its ratification. And these women inspired us to pick up the torch — and fight on. Both teams then left the field, leaving only the black T-shirt at home plate. It is truly an honor to be speaking with you tonight. Family is my uncles, my aunts and my chithis. And our children and our grandchildren will look in our eyes and ask us: “Where were you when the stakes were so high?”. This is the leader who wrote the Violence Against Women Act — and enacted the Assault Weapons Ban; who, as vice president, implemented the Recovery Act, which brought our country back from the Great Recession. People of all ages and colors and creeds who are, yes, taking to the streets, and also persuading our family members, rallying our friends, organizing our neighbors, and getting out the vote. What an awesome privilege. Among the details in the criminal complaint filed against 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse in the shooting deaths of two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, is information on the gun he allegedly used, which was later recovered by law enforcement: a Smith & Wesson AR-15 style .223 rifle, with a magazine that holds 30 rounds of ammunition. Senator Kamala Harris of California, the first woman of color to become a major party’s nominee for vice president, reintroduced herself to America in an acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, telling the story of her upbringing as a biracial daughter of immigrants and outlining her vision for a more inclusive country.

They went to sleep every night with the sound of his voice reading bedtime stories. Let’s fight with confidence in ourselves, and a commitment to each other, to the America we know is possible, the America we love. I keep thinking about that 25-year-old Indian woman — all of five feet tall — who gave birth to me at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, California. And years from now, this moment will have passed, and our children and our grandchildren will look in our eyes, and they’re going to ask us, where were you when the stakes were so high? So make no mistake — the road ahead is not easy. We may stumble.

I’m so inspired by a new generation of leadership.