For Black Women, ‘America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self’ NYT | Top Stories Erica L. Green and Maya King 7 November 2024 at 18:03 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 TimesVice 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.