Even fictional presidents don’t look like Kamala Harris − although Black men and white women have been represented in the Oval Office
- Written by Peter Kastor, Professor of History & American Culture Studies, Associate Vice Dean of Research, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
There have been Black presidents and female presidents in movies, but no presidents with Kamala Harris' background.Klaus Hackenberg/The Image Bank/Getty ImagesThe 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...