Vice President Harris told NPR's Michel Martin, "I think about my role as vice president of the United States and what that means both in terms of the bully pulpit that I have and the responsibility that comes with that to hopefully inform folks of things I might be aware of, but also to elevate public discourse and hopefully cut through the misinformation." (Abdul Aziz for NPR)
Onstage this weekend, there was Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion. And there was Kamala Harris.
"Coretta Scott King famously said that the fight for civil rights must be fought and won with each generation. We are that generation she spoke of," said the vice president onstage Friday at the 29th Essence Festival of Culture. "So, fight we must."
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