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For Black Women, ‘America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self’

Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat affirmed the worst of what many Black women believed about their country, even as some looked to the future with a wary determination.

© Maansi Srivastava for The New York Times

Vice President Kamala Harris held her election-night party at Howard University, the historically Black institution in Washington she once attended. The mood quickly grew bleak as results arrived.

Kamala Harris Loses, and Many Wonder if a Woman Will Ever Be President

After Kamala Harris became the second woman to lose a presidential election to Donald J. Trump, some women wondered if the glass ceiling would ever break.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Throughout her campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris tried to pivot away from questions about the historical significance of her candidacy to her desire to serve as a president for “all Americans.”
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