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    Kamala Harris’ historic candidacy energizes Texas’ Black and Indian American voters

    By James BarragánJasper Scherer The Texas Tribune,

    13 hours ago
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    Beverly Hatcher wears a “VOTE” necklace in her home in Beaumont on Tuesday. Hatcher had seen Michelle Obama wearing a similar necklace and immediately bought some for herself and others. Annie Mulligan/For The Texas Tribune

    KATY — Mika Rao has known Kamalas her whole life.

    The 49-year-old Katy resident has several family friends and relatives named Kamala. So when Vice President Kamala Harris emerged this week as the prohibitive favorite to replace President Joe Biden atop the ticket, Rao marveled at the idea that a woman of the same name, a fellow second-generation Indian American, was on the verge of becoming the Democratic presidential nominee — and that Rao’s two college-aged children would witness it.

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    Mika Rao is shown in her home in Katy on Monday. Rao’s parents were proud Americans and she remembers being tuned in to elections as early as elementary school, with a core memory of Geraldine Ferraro’s nomination as the first female vice president candidate in 1984. Annie Mulligan/For The Texas Tribune
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