Even fictional presidents don’t look like Kamala Harris − although Black men and white women have been represented in the Oval Office

There have been Black presidents and female presidents in movies, but no presidents with Kamala Harris' background. Klaus Hackenberg/The Image Bank/Getty Images

The United States had its first Black president and its first female president over a half-century ago.

They were fictional, they were on screen, their names were Douglass Dilman and Leslie McCloud, and in the decades that followed there have been many others.