They descended on the Mall from all directions, carrying messages on signs and on their already sweat-soaked T-shirts: “Unbreakable,” said one. Thousands lounged in the grass around the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, listening to speeches and slipping down their masks to sip water. They cheered as speakers talked of Sen. Kamala D. Harris, of America’s teachers, of the responsibility to vote. In 1978, she said, she was told she couldn’t wear her long braids while she worked as a bus driver. Her parents, who had grown up picking cotton, told her that man was “making good sense.”

Source: Washington Post August 28, 2020 10:37 UTC