NOTES FROM THE EDITOR

This Summer\Fall 2021 issue of our 1619: Journal of African American Studies brings to our readers three outstanding articles. The first is a collaboration between a professor of politics at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and her student researchers. As the election of Vice President Kamala Harris shattered the barrier of power for women, in general, and African American women specifically, Professor Chambers and her students provide us with an understanding of this achievement from the perspective of African American women’s political mobilization out of necessity. The theme of African American women’s...