The most powerful Black women of 2021

1. Kamala Harris

U.S Vice President Kamala Hamala Harris topped the Forbes list as the most powerful Black woman in the world and the second most powerful woman on earth. Harris became the first Black woman and the first South Asian-American woman to be the vice president of America.

For two decades in public life, Harris has achieved a lot of firsts: the first Black woman to serve as San Francisco’s district attorney, the first woman to be California’s attorney general, first Indian American senator, and now she is working by Biden’s side.

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Harris is the eldest child of her immigrant parents. Her mother comes from India and her dad comes from Jamaica. They first met as undergraduates while participating in a civil rights movement at the University of California Berkeley.

However, her parents separated not long after her younger sister, Maya, was born. The sisters moved into a Berkeley apartment with their mother before moving to Montreal, when her mother landed a new job there. After high school, Harris attended Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of Law to become a prosecutor.