Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris to visit Cleveland Friday as Women's March Cleveland, on Sat., Oct 17, will host a march and rally for women's rights and Black lives beginning at 1 pm outside of the Harvard Community Services Center....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio

Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate U.S. Senator Kamala Harris

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will visit Cleveland on Friday for a campaign stop, the Biden campaign announced Wednesday, Harris the only Black female U.S. senator and the only Black woman to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.

The Biden campaign said in a press release on Wednesday that more specifics are forthcoming.

Harris' campaign stop this week in Cleveland will occur just a day before Women's March Cleveland, on Sat., Oct. 17 beginning at 1pm outside of the Harvard Community Services Center on the city's east side, will host a rally and march to address racial injustices and women's rights, one of some 300 marches that day across the country spearheaded by Women's March National, including a march in Washington, D.C.

 CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR THE OCT 17, 2020 WOMEN'S MARCH CLEVELAND EVENT

Cleveland is a largely Black major American city that sits in Cuyahoga County, the state's second largest county, and a Democratic stronghold.

The county is roughly 29 percent Black.

Harris is the first woman of color to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America, and pundits say she is a welcome addition to Biden's presidential ticket.

A former vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, Biden leads President Donald Trump in the polls nationally, and in most of the swing states.

But the two candidates are neck and neck in Ohio as the Nov 3 presidential election nears and early voting gets underway,  Ohio a pivotal state for presidential elections. 

A former California attorney general, Harris is native of Oakland who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.

She became the fourth woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America behind vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin in 2008 and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton a presidential candidate that year.

Hailing from the nation's most populous state, she was the best known on Biden's narrowed list of potential running mates

The former vice president had promised to choose a female running-mate during the 11th Democratic Debate on March 15 in Washington, D.C and pressure subsequently mounted by Black leaders and Democrats, and even some mainstream media, for that woman to be a woman of color, preferably a Black woman.

Others on Biden's short list for to run for vice president on his presidential ticket, most of them Black women, were U.S. Sen Tammy Duckworth, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Rep. Val Demings of Florida, former national security adviser Susan Rice, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep Karen Bass of California.

Harris brings a Jewish husband to the White House, if she and Biden win in November, and she enjoys a grown stepdaughter and stepson whom she says she is close too, as she is with her only sister.

Her parents are both dead.

She received her law degree from the University of California and her undergraduate degree from Howard University, a historically Black university located in Washington D. C., the nation's capital, and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, one of the prominent Black sororities in the country, among several of them.

A staunch Obama ally, Sen. Harris was a known pick in Democratic political circles to be the one both Biden and Obama favored  for Biden's presidential ticket.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.