Women rejoice at overdue milestone

Harris’ election resonates with those of all generations and races

Linda Parrick, sleep-deprived since election day, got up early. Meditated. Checked the news. (No news.) And had just sat down in her Long Beach home to watch the University of Michigan Wolverines take on the Indiana University Hoosiers.

Shauna Davis was surrounded by hundreds who had gathered Saturday morning in downtown Los Angeles to demand the election process be protected from partisan interference.

And Anita Ross was curled up in bed in Sacramento when her daughter Kameela raced in. The 10-year-old had spent the week obsessively watching the electoral vote count’s glacial progress. On Saturday morning, she had news.

The wait was over. Sen. Kamala Harris had been elected vice president, the first woman to reach that near pinnacle of U.S. politics. Oh, yeah — and Joe Biden had prevailed over President Trump in the race for the Oval Office.

Soon, mother and daughter were “hollering and screaming,” said Ross, who is Black and Latina. For her daughters, Kameela and 12-year-old Angelina, A9]